Cusack - do what you will with me

After watching Must Love Dogs today, I had wanted to write about John Cusack, about how he has a handle on me that I would proceed with a movie that I know has a bad ratings and has a below average plot. I changed my mind later only to have it changed back.

Must Love Dogs is not a breath of fresh air. It is an uninspiring movie with very little to offer except occasional brilliant lines which are not all that memorable. There are many people I know in real life that are capable of better lines. So, why waste money on this movie?

Still, I was glued to my seat for 1.5 hour.

I can’t explain the thing about Cusack that draws me to him, that I am willing to let him rule my life for two hours. I couldn’t explain Cusack’s charm until Roger Ebert uncovered that mystery to me.

“Cusack in particular has a gift of intelligent speech that no doubt inspires discerning women to let him know, one way or another, that he can have his way with them if he will just keep talking,” Ebert wrote.

I thank Ebert for making sense of my infatuation for Cusack and for many other things which I won’t have known if not for his sharp observation and depth. I thank writers like him for helping me see my world better and to rise above my circumstances. He is one of the few reasons that I still check Chicago Suntimes’ website.

Well, see what Cusack has done again. I actually wanted to write about something else, something that is more important about what N and I had discussed earlier today about depressing blogs. But Cusack captured my attention and I couldn’t stop writing about him.

Let me capture two lines from the movie to end this entry:

“I had the one true love and nothing can replace that. I am just tap dancing now and if I tap dance fast enough, I may forget what I have lost.”

“When your heart breaks, it grows back bigger.”