Trust the Man

Tonight, I went to a preview screening of the movie: Trust the Man, featuring David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Eva Mendes.

The outline of the story is the two major couples of the story: Duchovny and Moore, and Crudup and Gyllenhaal, who have relationship problems. One of them are married, while the other one has been together for seven years. The story is about each of the men making a mistake, realizing it, and then making amends so that they can be with the women that they love.

It appears that every couple that was featured in this movie, except for Gyllenhaal's flings, were cheating. Do they not know what it means to be in a relationship, or to be married? I realize that sometimes, people have difficult keeping their eyes on their partner, and I also know that people do cheat. But every major couple in this movie cheated! What does this say about the society's perspective of a relationship?

Also, it raises an interesting question. If someone ever cheated on me in a relationship... How would I react? At first, I would think that the person would be out the door, and never get a second chance with me. However, after watching this movie, I think my stance has softened a bit... The person would get a second chance, but there would be some drastic changes! Of course, I hope that I never cheat on someone, and that someone never cheats on me. And I wish that no one would ever have to suffer the hurt of being cheated on, and possibly cheating on someone, but I know that this is far from an ideal world, and thus, cheating will go on.

I also tried to make some poutine tonight. The most important part of the poutine is the gravy. And my gravy was too watery. I have some of it left for future attempts (as I still have fries left in my fridge). Perhaps next time, I'll heat up the gravy first, to make it thicker, and then pour it over my fries, and cheese. I took the fancy route today, and I bought grated mozzarella cheese, and put it over my fries, and then put it in the oven. That's a good way to do it, and the cheese turned out well, it was just the gravy was too wet. Even though the poutine was not as good as it could have been, I am full, and I will go and do dishes.

I also walked out of the movie with posters for Trust the Man. I will put one up in my room, I will give one to my friend Laura. And then I think the third one will go to Gabriel, if he wants it. If not, I'm sure there will be other friends who will want the poster.