He's Just Not That Into You

Words: He's just not that into you, actors names, etc.

Call me valentine candy

Girl smiling and talking on her cell phone, looking to the right

Blond guy smiling and looking left (on the right hand side)

Scarlett Johansson (blond girl) smiling and looking left, with her hand on her chest

Ben Affleck (dark haired guy) smiling, looking left, with ocean behind him

Dark haired guy wearing black t-shirt that is unbuttoned (on the right hand side) smiling, looking left

Jennifer Connelly (dark haired girl) looking right with a slight smile

Dark haired guy (at the top) looking somewhat surprised

(Top left) Jennifer Aniston (blond haired girl) smiling, looking to the right, in a peach dress

(Top right) Drew Barrymore (dark haired girl) smiling, looking to the left

I saw this movie yesterday and found it good but fairly depressing. This movie brutally showed the mistakes people make in relationships. It was honestly hard to watch and heart wrenching. While this movie is good, I do not intend on seeing it ever again. What makes this movie an emotional roller coaster is the mistakes the characters make are mistakes everyone has made at some point or another but seem to be put on a larger scale.

The type that the words are in is symbolic. The word, not, is emphasized since it is in italics, showing what the theme of the movie itself is.

The fact that almost all the characters are smiling is very deceiving. When I first saw this movie, I did not expect a huge amount of intensity as I received. I am wondering if, subconsciously, the fact that all the characters are smiling signaled to me that while there would be some drama in this movie, it would be more funny and uplifting. While it is true that the movie's title clearly states what it is about, I feel that the poster is misleading. Perhaps this is also because I am a part of American society. We want happiness, love, and the ideal so much that we prefer to perceive things, like movies, to be uplifting and light, even when the obvious is stated.

The candy positioned by the girl talking on the phone is very appropriate and symbolic. In this movie, this character, Gigi, is constantly misreading men and waiting for men to call her that never do.

I wanted to make an observation about the characters that are looking to the right. In the movie, I personally felt that the characters, who are looking to the right in this picture, had the most complicated relationship issues. For example, with Jennifer Aniston's character, she had been dating a man for 7 years who did not want to get married, simply because he did not believe in marriage. Jennifer Connelly's character was suspicious of her husband smoking, which mattered to her because her dad died of lung cancer, but did not know that her husband, the man with the blond hair, was having an affair with Scarlett Johansson's character. The girl talking on the phone, at the bottom of the poster, also had major relationship issues since she was unable to find a good man to date period. She kept making heart wrenching mistakes with men.