This 2008 movie has never gotten my attention honestly until when there's nothing on TV or even HBO to watch so my boyfriend and I just had to see it unwillingly.The movie is about a couple for 3 years struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. You can smell some trouble already plus a corny script, nothing can really torture me more than a horrible comedy-not-so-funny. It's just the meaning that they try to tell us in the movie that quite acceptable, in my opinion.
The meaning of family and marriage, love and trust, respect and understanding. A couple of 3 years (Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn), they don't want a commitment as they're afraid to step into the same situation like their divorce parents. As they traveled to see their parents, 4 houses, for Christmas, they found out that maybe they didn't know each other that well as they thought. But they finally learn that the person in the past wasn't as important as the person in the present whom they live with everyday.
Yes, it's corny but it did get me. I don't really need to know the past of my couple, whatever they did it may some how important but the person you love and live with now is much more important than a failure past or an embarrassing childhood or a broken family. You don't wanna keep digging your partner's history as much as you don't want them to dig yours so to be fair, just share it when you feel like you want to share but don't force them and expect them to speak out right away. LOVE is also about trust and respect. LOVE is also about feeling comfortable the way you are and so does your partner. LOVE is also about understanding each other need. LOVE, sometimes, needs their privacy as well. LOVE can also mean learning some new things about your partner and learning a few things with your partner, everyday.
We somehow can learn a lesson, or a few, from movie and I really like the concept of "Four Christmases" but please Hollywood, can you do it better next time?
Yosita Anita V.
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