How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days is a romantic movie about two individuals who find each other on secretively different agendas and ultimately finds themselves falling helplessly in love with each other. As the “How to..” columnist for a trendy Composure Magazine played by Kate Hudson; agrees to a first-hand account about what it takes to drive a man out of her life by deceptively doing obvious dating “no no” in order to hellishly have a man running for the exits in 10 days. While in the other hand Benjamin Barry played by Matthew McConaughey accepts a high-stakes bet that he can lure any women into falling head over heels in love with him in also 10 days. Winning the bet s means that Mattew becomes the front man in pitching the Delowers; a giant in the Diamond business, into an advertisement deals that will land his company fortunes. The resulting head on collision fires a “series of deliriously comic deception that prove when it comes to true love..your heart cannot tell a lie.”
Andie Anderson played by Kate Hudson is the quintessential college grad who is working for typical girly magazine with the ambitions of writing pieces about substance. Andie’s passion for writing about important issues is derailed by her boss who only concerns herself with boob jobs, Botox, Penis, and glamour. Andie represents a woman of substance and want to show that even in an overly superficial magazine like The Composer she still feels like issues that are important her; such as politics will add another dimension to the magazine. While trying to pitch a serious idea like politics to her boss she finds herself covering for a friend. Her colleague Michelle Rueben played by Kathryn Hahn had issues with men and she seems to do what Andie herself describes as Dating “No..No’s.” For example on first dates she would cry during sex and repeat how much she loves her one night stands. In return she would get the run arounds with men while Andie who know what she is doing is portrayed in the movie as being obviously successful. Michelle after her last dating ordeal finds herself bed ridding after another unsuccessful dating bonanza and is left unprepared for work in a weekly meeting with the Boss Lana Jong played by Bebe Neuwirth. Andie decided to cover for her by using her unsuccessful dating tactics in turn doing a pieces co-founded by her boss; how to lose a guy in 10 days by doing all the stuff guys find hauntingly unattractive.
During the movie the two characters interact with different goals in mind, for one Barry, because of the bet, has to stay with Andy no matter what. Even if it means attending couples therapy. Andy played with concepts such as self-esteem, purity, and monogamy. When exploring concepts such as clinginess and neediness the movie express the what not to dos as a way to teach its target audience women self-worth and confidence. Self-worth is defined by the women not by the moment as is preached in this movie. Andy showed extreme dimensions of over compensation and despotism. Like for example the role played by Kathryn Hahn showed many signs of low self-worth and an unusually negative outlook on approaching men and fear of rejection. The movie show that women who are annoying attention craving, territorial, and extremely emotional has to find a way stop! This movie teaches that women and their needs has to be more balance because without balance guys generally look the other way.
This movie raps up with the two finally finding each other’s misdeeds which has them hilariously combating each other in a surprisingly final bout which left me on my stomach. The character Mathew finds out that this bet seems to be than he asked for as he finds himself his true love. This movie stands out because it shows the struggle of a profession woman out in the real world, helplessly ignored when striving for prestige. This flick has deep sides to it which makes it pretty interesting. I recommend this film to the class if you haven’t already watched it!
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