George Playing Himself?

Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2010)

Most of the time, "Brother Where Are Thou" comes to mind, Clooney plays someone other than himself, showing what a fine actor he is. This is not one of those times. He has become the perennial bachelor and all that cute repartee between him and the girl, could well be him ad libbing from real life. I am also thinking that he is now of the age where what his character was going through is exactly what he is going through. Like Warren Beatty, I expect him to quit tomcatting and settle down within the next year.
I especially like the income level that the movie placed his character in: I have spent many a lonely night or nights in those 'executive suites' that the Candlewwod or the Holiday Inn Express or the Hampton Inn puts you in. He obviously is not a big money maker, since the 4 Seasons is definitely not one of his 'homes away from home'.
The fact that his sister seems to work in a seedy hotel also gives you the impression that this wedding is WAAAAAY over the incomes of the participants. In the South, we were told that the reason many African/Americans drove huge pink Cadillacs was because their income bracket would never be able to afford them a nice home. But here was one way of being able to experience a little bit of the American Dream....a huge pink=finned car. The same thing goes for lower middle-class All-Out weddings. There will never be another day like this in that girl's life. Unfortunately, many brides are so stressed out by the experience that they don't really enjoy all that their credit rating allowed them to owe. As indicated by the groom's cold feet, one of the most touching scenes in the movie (and more proof of what a people-knowledgeable person Clooney was).
One thing still puzzles me: Clooney's sister reams him out for his 'adolescent way of life', always roaming, never settling down. She tells him to 'Grow up', as well as that little girl who was going to fire everyone by Internet. Yet, at the end (****spoiler alert), the woman he was falling in love with and finally deciding to settle down with turns out to have been married with children all along. And she has the effrontery to tell him "I am a grown-up." How wicked, how droll. Did the authors know what the effect of that line would be, even on us jaded cynical older folks? Being grown-up means that I screw around on my husband? So here's what will happen. George will nurse his wounds for awhile, but then go after some other girl (maybe the one he got the job for in San Francisco), whom he will marry and have the kids he was considering (just like Warren Beatty).!!!!!!