Breaking Up IS hard to do

NAY

Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn (a romantic couple off the big screen) are playing an onscreen duo at the brink of breaking up.

So it starts off with glamour shots of the two in their “moments of happiness” together: with friends, with family, unwrapping Xmas gifts, having drinks, eating dinner, and of course lots and lots of kissing. And you would think that the premise of the movie is to maybe bring these portraits to life so that we could feel it all happening around us. To tell a story of how they met, why they fit, what went wrong, and why it’s unfixable. To show us these two strangers getting together and then slowly falling apart. Point: So that we care enough to build some kind of emotional connection with these characters. So that when the whole thing comes to an end, we feel it ending for us too.

Fed up with Vaughn's petty bullshit, Aniston decides to call it off to show him what he’d be missing out on. (See, I don't even care enough to remember their character names!) He wants things done his way even though she wants to play by her own rules. It’s such a toss up that you as the audience don’t even know which side makes sense to side on. Oh and why is this funny? It’s just as uncomfortable as actually being in the same room when a couple argues.

Yes, most of us have been there before. Arguing over the littlest things, bad habits, different interests, too much time, too little time, not enough help, expenses, ex-lovers, the list goes on and on. For whatever reason, a relationship would hit its breaking point. Run its course, if you will, only to come down to the obvious point that two people are causing more harm to each other than good and the need to break up is inevitable.

Put the audience in a real situation. Create a moment; a reason why a couple is meant for each other and then give an even stronger example of why they should not pursue it any further. Make us feel that pull for him, her, any of them! To continue to watch with eagerness. Otherwise, it’s all simply a waste of time, film, money, and above all purpose.