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Crazy Stupid Love

Nice fun while it lasts. But it fades just as quickly from the mind. And the heart.

Namrata Joshi

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Starring: Steve Carrel, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon
Directed by Glenn Ficara and John Requa
Rating: **

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razy Stupid Love begins rather merrily with the camera trained on an assortment of legs playing footsie and eventually stops at a pair that appears guarded and distant. Here, the man is wearing rather regular, boring sneakers—a symbol of what the film deals with: how life’s banalities bring on the death of romance in a relationship.

And so we have the man wearing the boring sneakers, aka Cal Weaver (Carrel), being informed by his wife Emily (Moore) that she wants a divorce. She had been having an affair with co-worker David Lindhagen (Bacon), while her relationship with Cal had been getting more humdrum by the day. While the Weavers have stopped being “us” and are reconciling with the “25 years of marriage but nothing to say to each other” situation, love manifests itself as a many-splendoured thing all around them. Their 13-year-old son is falling deeply in love with the 17-year-old baby-sitter. Wait, there’s more. The baby-sitter, in turn, is falling in love with Cal. Yet another track focuses on a womaniser, Jacob Palmer (Gosling), at the bar who gives Cal a makeover and guides him towards much-needed recklessness. According to him, Cal needs to stop being a “one-woman man”. The complications of love keep getting more and more confounded right up to a crazy climax.

The film presents various quirks of heartaches and heartbreaks but eventually upholds “grand romantic gestures” and the belief in soulmates: that when you find the one, you must never give up on him/her. Not that there’s anything remotely surprising or unpredictable about what transpires on the screen. In fact, cliches are much in abundance. You know, for instance, that the wild guy will be tamed by a sweet, loveable girl and he will prevent her committing to an obviously boring man. What keeps the interest alive is the smart and witty writing and the bittersweet feel. Also, the actors are in good fettle and keep bringing on the smiles from the viewers every now and then. Crazy Stupid Love is nice fun while it lasts. But it fades just as quickly from the mind. And the heart.

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