Listen, it's Hallmark or Lifetime or whatever. No one is expecting Hemingway or Shakespeare character development or an Oscar. But every movie has a protagonist. Ava is the main character, and if it were just a simple case of her being a control freak, which so many Rom Com women are, she would go to the resort, learn to loosen up, and get over her heartache. And then either choose carefree new guy, or go back to old guy who dumped her just before the altar but have made some personality changes on her own part.
But in no part of her getaway, did she see how seriously psycho crazy it was that she had bought her wedding dress already before the 2 were even seriously dating, and had her b/f's future career planned out for him, had booked the venue before they even sat down to talk about wedding details, and already booked their honeymoon, ...and already had a detailed list of their future kids, what the kids names would be without even talking to him. That's not just minor Hallmark control issues, that's serious psychosis. Major red flag. And dude had every right to run for the hills, and yet she was making him look like the bad guy 100% for calling off the wedding. She and Courtney Cox a la Friends should get together, they would be soulmates.
He should have been the protagonist, in a real world scenario, and he would have not tried to get her back, because no one would fly halfway across the globe to fight for someone that bat sh crazy. You don't marry that kind of psychotic. You date them maybe for a few weeks in a whirlwind steamy foreign romance. You don't go oh yeah she had our entire lives planned out before we even had a serious conversation together down to how many kids we would have, when we would have them and what their names would be, what my career moves would look like, and I can't imagine spending my life with anyone else.
Yeah Hallmark or whoever produced this, got this all wrong. This should have been the makings of some psycho thrasher horror flick where she murders the guy, a la Fatal Attraction. This kind of psychosis doesn't belong in a Rom Com. Ever.
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