Promoting Marriage

Rating: 7/10 (3 January 2010)

If you like marriage then this movie is for you. I happen to think the opposite, hence I do not find the movie too pleasant. It could have been sponsored by the catholic church, or any other institution that mystifies marriage.
I found only dumb and shallow arguments for marriage in that flick, nothing substantial or convincing, e.g. "you need a copilot, you don't want to be alone, you don't want to be old and lonely when you die", and so on, the usual pseudo philosophical crap, as if in order to not being alone did require anyone to marry at all. Just think that you can have all the good stuff in life, like sex, companionship, kids, without the drudgery of the glorified, out of date relationship called marriage, which most of the time will certainly fail you, and often leaves you stripped of your car, house, assets, even your own offspring. More and more people are in relationships without a marriage certificate. much to the chagrin of hard core religious simple minds, who will sure love that (IMHO) not so thrilling movie.
The good thing is that Ryan Bingham does not fall into the marriage trap, partly because the woman he increasingly likes turns out to be already married with kids, and used him as an escape from her own husband.