stereotypical relationship: the break up in review

Doing away with the ‘falling in-love’ plot like what most romantic flicks portray, The Break Up, starring Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and comedy actor Vince Vaughn, focused on the aftermath of being in a long time relationship.
However, a slideshow of pictures was shown at the beginning of the film as to cover the ‘magical’ moments the two have shared before they lived a ‘war-battered’ relationship.

Last July 26, this romantic-comedy hit the cinemas and now on its first week of showing. The movie directed by Peyton Reed, is a reality check on what most couples have to deal with after being together for so long. Quarreling over the unimaginable simple things and having differing points of view doomed their once flourishing relationship to failure.Brook, an art gallery assistant, became sick of his lazy boyfriend Gary, a tour guide in the Chicago bus, who can’t seem to do things right for her. All Brook asked from Gary were just simple things which in fact needed not to be asked for. A normal guy who truly loves his girl would absolutely do such things without even being asked to do it.

While watching the movie, you would even probably ask yourself why and how Brook fell in love with that kind of annoying and insensitive guy. Living in a condo unit, the couple Brook and Gary turned their nest into a war zone. Tirelessly nagging on to each other about petty things and arguing on who’s-going-to-do-what, made their everyday life together miserable, chaotic and literally noisy. With that, Gary called it quits. Brook’s family and friends got into the mind-boggling situation of the couple as well as Gary’s friends, which created an even worse scenario. Dividing the condo into two lead to more serious conflicts of privacy and property.

Jennifer Aniston, the same gorgeous face and brilliant actress that she really is very well portrayed the sophisticated, workaholic and yet loving character of Brook. You’ll love the way she nags over Vaughn and would make you even think if she did that to his ex-husband Brad Pitt. Vince Vaughn, being the comedy guy that he is was responsible for injecting the humor into the story; however, you’ll really get struck the moment he shifted gears and got serious into some scenes of the movie.

Towards the latter part of the movie, emotional scenes were piled up as the two started to realize and reflect their differences. It was where you can actually feel the entirety and the mood of the whole story. Tears would easily well up in your eyes as you see how Aniston played the unloved girlfriend of Vaughn. She was the type of a hopeful woman who actually worked her butt off just to save their relationship that’s going off the brink.

The director managed to create an ending that’s natural and absolutely believable for the audience to ponder as they face love's most challenging stage of breaking up. Lasting for less than two hours, this believable movie of how a couple could actually break up is a mixture of comedy and drama that would suit for a light viewing appetite. I believe most couples could actually relate to the movie as it happens in reality. When at some point of the relationship, someone loves more than the other and the promises made prior to the relationship were all gone in a blink of an eye.