During my flight to Montreal, Jason and I started watching Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I forget the reason but we only saw roughly the first half hour of the movie on our three hour flight. About a month after we started the movie, we finally finished it.
I expected a simple comedy and that is exactly what I got. The relationship between the two main characters felt kind of weak but since I have man crush on Michael Cera (much like how Jason has a man crush on Seth Rogen) I enjoyed it anyways.
I mentioned to a friend that I finally watched the movie and she told me that the book captured more of the charm between the two characters than the movie did. After a short exchange where I had to defend myself against the claim that I "don't read", I leapt into the first Chapters I saw with a "I'll show you" mentality and bought Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
While reading the book, I made mental notes of the differences between the movie and the novel. The two capture the same essence of the story but they differ in the series of events. Then I started noticing that the scenes of passion were described very vividly. That's when it clicked, "Oh my god! I'm reading a fluff (romance) novel!!!" I was scammed to read into a genre a books meant to satisfy a woman's sense of lust. Knowing I read a romance novel feels like purposely walking down a street of porno stores to get to the other crosswalk. I cried a little inside.
Spoiler alert.
ReplyDeleteBased on a trashy romance book, hey? That explains a few scenes. That whole tangent where Nora is harassed for having never had an orgasm seemed so irrelevent. Same goes for 2x Alexis Dziena (Tris) naughty nympho str!p tease scenes... and the Nora finger-bang scene... aren't these girls still in high school? It was as if they threw it in just for the sake of having gratuitous teen s3x content. The s3x content added nothing to the overall theme of the movie. I guess I shouldn't be bitching though; I was sex starved high school kid once and THAT is the target audience. The teen-party genre is always full of sexually empowered youth. It's nothing new.
I must be getting square. Teens having s3x doesn't seem normal like it did back when I was still in school. Haha, funny how that works.