We all make choices. What's yours?

L'ultimo bacio

Kim: The world's moving so fast now and we're all chasing something so fast now that we start freaking out way before our parents did.
We dont ever stop to breathe anymore.

Michael: Just been thinking about my life lately, and everything feels pretty planned out, you know.
It's like i know everything thats going to happen.
There are no more surprises.

Kim: so what do you do?
Michael: complain, I guess.

"You cant fail if you don't give up"

The Last Kiss is a remake of Italian movie L'ultimo bacio. After Garden State, i'd be expecting as much from Zach Braff. They're all quite.. err, depressing. Although both of 'em tell us aboutthe hurdles in life really are about. The honest truth.

The ending was never a disappointment. Although it seems like a happy ending but when I remember it again... both the ending (red: Garden State and The Last Kiss) are seen as "the new beginning" instead of "happily ever after".

It's more realistic, don't you think?

Zach Braff as the lead actor always played the man with a lot of deep thoughts. Be it necessary or unnecessary ones. In Last Kiss, he is a 29 year old man having second thought about settling down. Sorta a pin-point, doesnt it? when the number reach the big three. I thought when we reached the legal age of twenty-one, we were asked to mature and act as our age and stop fooling around.

I guess thats just the Asian in me.

Twenty-one is the beginning, prolly for most of 'em out there. Thats when you start all the "legal" fun. That'll turn around when the number reach thirty. It's when you are obligated to really act your age and be mature.

The movie tells us similar to that... well, er, from men's point of view.

The time to settle down. and that'll be it.

What's the word?
Cold-feet. Yeah thats it.

He was too scared to move on to a new beginning and instead, began to find different alternative. A more fun alternative. Refusing to settle down and take responsibilities and be grateful to what life has given him.

The midlife "crises" are what they're called.

For Michael, he ended up to defeat his "crises" and made a jump on his life, facing his future.
As I said, It's not just about a happy ending. It's the new beginning.

There scenes that tell you most about the movie set out clearly in two different slots.

1. Kim and Michael at the Tree House

2. Michael at the front porch of Jenna's House.

That's Michael... and his life.

It's a pretty straightforward movie, after all. Prolly the original is sexier given the "italian-made" trademark. Ha!