Not bad, it was kinda fun to watch, but not realy romantic, just a funny comedy. She has to write a column on how to lose a guy in ten days, while he bets that he can make any woman fall in love with him in ten days, so basically she has to do all the work, trying to get him to break up, but since he wants to win the bet he bears it all pretending to love it, since it’s just for a few days. Of course they’re made for each other, they like the same things, so he doesn’t have to work hard to make her fall in love. And he likes her when she’s herself, he just thinks she’s crazy, with multiple personalities or something, like amazing-Andie and crazy-Andie.
He doesn’t even do anything at the end, because she’s the one to admit that she loves him (twice, first in the paper and then to him), he’s just there. Yes, he runs after her before she flies away, but she had no idea he’d come. That’s all he does, really.
Andie doesn’t even like to write that kind of things, she’d want to be a ‘real writer’, write about ‘serious stuff’ like politics and poverty, but Composure is not that kind of magazine. That’s pretty obvious, if you think about it, how could she think of writing about those subjects in that job, it wasn’t doable, but she seems to believe that she’ll be able to do it if she just writes this one last thing… actually nobody said that, ever, her boss clearly said she has to write the kind of things she approves of, the kind of things that Composure’s readers like, and expect to find.
Anyway, she seems to believe that.
Ben is into campaigns, and he’s had success with sports products and the like, but for diamonds the boss thinks that the other team, of two women, will be better, so he pushes his way into their meeting and says that he might have a different approach, that he knows women, he loves women and he knows what they want, and he could make any woman fall in love. His competition just met Andie at the Composure office and know about the article, so they choose her.
They are both very confident they can make it easily. At first everything is perfect, they talk and go to a basketball game together, and they have fun, but then she starts doing all those things that drive men away - obiously, since she acted like a lunatic. I mean, making him go get her a coke and lose the last minute of the game is just inconsiderate and selfish, but leaving more than ten messages in his phone machine, filling his house with pink stuff, and his bathroom with women stuff (on what, the third day they’ve known each other?) and then showing him the album she made on her computer with pictures of their wedding and their two children, and calling his mother without telling him to get pictures of him, and giving him a little dog that pees everywhere, and making a scene at the vegan diner, like ‘he thinks I’m fat!’ and crying, and ruining his game night with his friends, and making him think she’ll take him to an important game and instead taking him to a Celine Dion concert, and when they went to the movies and she chose Sleepless in Seattle because she loves it and he has to say he does too, and she keeps talking and causing a big guy to punch him in the face… (btw, how come they showed an old movie? Is it just for this film or does it really happen?)
Ben on his part only has to bear it; he almost gives up after the game night, but his friends and colleagues remind him of what’s at stake so he tries again.
Finally the ten days are over, and she accepts to go with him at the party. He has to bring ‘the girl’ to that party as the condition for the job, he has to show his boss that he did it, that she loves him. It works, and he gets the job, but they also both learn about the other’s bet.
Funny thing, they both get angry, which is rather stupid since they did the same thing… anyway, they have a big fight and break up, but he keeps the job because his boss talked with her and thought she did love him.
Andie writes her story, just a little differently. She writes that she fell in love with him, that those ten days where the best of her life, or something… and his friends make him read it, so he hurries to get her back.
Andie asked her boss to write about what she wants, and of course the boss says she can choose what to write among certain things suitable for a fashion magazine for women, so Andie finally understands and when arrives at her office he’s told that she’s going to Washington. He rides his bike through the traffic and stops her taxi on the bridge to talk to her. First, he asks her if it’s true what she wrote, then tells her that she doesn’t have to run away, that she can write whenever.
They kiss: happy ending.
ITA come farsi lasciare in dieci giorni
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