P.S. I Love You

Director: Not anyone you should know
Year: Who cares? really?


I didn't bother looking for a photo


I was feeling a bit under the weather & needed to curl up in bed with some ice cream & a chick-flick. Unfortunately, there was no ice cream, & "P.S. I Love You" is probably a disgrace, even to the much forgiving genre of chick-flicks. I read the plot & expected something sad & sweet, maybe not worth much, but still just what you need when you feel a certain way. There's this woman whose husband dies, & then she keeps getting these letter he had written before he had died, to get her life going once again. But what it turns out to be is a romantic tragi-comedy, which is neither romantic, not comic, nor too tragic. There is no chemistry between the lead pair, they start the movie by yelling at each other for some reason you barely understand, then pouncing around in their bed for a while, cut to the next scene, he's dead, she looks sexy, their friends drink & dance & flirt at a bar, which is supposed to be a memorial service or something. Then she goes back home & is really sad for a while, you do feel a bit sad for her & just when you think you should go get the tissues, the inaneness hits you full force. She starts getting these letters, he was the only person who understood her & only he could get her back on her feet, blah, blah etc. And he gets her back on her feet by sending her to sing Karaoke, & to Ireland, where she sleeps with his best friend (eeeew!!!) She comes back & finds that her calling in life is to design shoes, all thanks to his letters of course. Then he urges her to fall in love again, & she kisses whoever is available & immediately after the kiss she realizes that she doesn't love this guy, (of course, we knew it all along, coz he's just not the lovable type) she decides to wait for a better deal.
I have a few unanswered questions though...
Firstly, do all Irish men wear truckloads of jewelery?
Secondly, if he knew he could help her find her calling, why didn't he do so in the 10 years that they were married & could only do it, after he was dead, through a single letter?
There are several more, but i there's no use asking, it's just a silly movie. Bollywood "complete entertainment" flicks are probably a better way to spend your time than watch stuff like this. 'Nuff said.