Love and Other Drugs is a 2010 film directed by Edward Zwick. The film, which stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal, is based on the no-fiction novel Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman written by Jamie Reidy. It is a touching story about a different but powerful love. One of those stories to see to regain confidence in feelings. A beautiful love film
Love & other remedies and a film that makes us smile and makes us passionate about the tortuous story of the protagonists right from the start. In the end then, we find ourselves crying moved by one of the most romantic scenes in cinema in recent years.
The story tells of Maggie, a young woman with a seductive free spirit, reluctant to any sentimental bond, and Jamie Randall, a young, brilliant and rampant pharmaceutical representative with an irresistible charm, which she exploits almost infallibly both in the world of work and in the female one. The meeting between the two will lead both, to their great surprise, to feel under the influence of the strongest drug of all: love. A story that begins for fun and ends with an unexpected involvement, which makes us reflect on the power of relationships, especially the most unexpected. The link in addition to the disease
Maggie suffers from Parkinson’s and for this reason chooses to live life with only one philosophy: “Carpe diem”. It is for this reason that she prefers not to get involved in demanding relationships. Fear of her blocks her, fear of the other as much as fear of herself. But then Jamie arrives, who, through her apparent “superficiality”, seems able to make her take “a vacation from herself”.
How many times the fear of “frightening” someone blocks us
How many times we limit ourselves in relationships
Maggie teaches us to overcome our fears, to let ourselves go even when problems bigger than us seem to override us. This film is about illness but also about life, that life we cling to. The final monologue of the film
The moral of the final monologue, which we propose below, is one: in two, life can be faced better. Love can save us.
“I’m a big asshole. Actually no, I am consciously a big asshole, because I have never cared about anything or anyone in my entire life, and the truth is that more or less everyone has accepted it. You know and so … and Jamie … and then you … God … you!
You never thought that about me. I’ve never known anyone who really thought I wanted anything, until I met you, and then you made me believe it, so unfortunately I need you and you need me! […] So let’s say that in a parallel universe there is a couple like us only that she is fine, he is perfect and their problems are how much money they can spend on their vacation or which of the two is in a bad mood that day or if they feel guilty if they leave their children with the babysitter. I don’t want us to be like those two, I want us, you: this. “
