Tough seems like a classical Holywood romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the movie "Runaway Bride" , for me , holds quite a more to give. It is not merely about a woman of unsuccessful 3 "almost marriages" helplessly striving to find "the one" although it is, but in fact it is the story of an aware adult suffering from instrinsic anxiety of extrinsic pressure of repeated mistakes.
Movie shows that Maggie Carpenter (J. Roberts) is quite more than an undecided flirtatious woman -as seen and unceasedly teased by family and friends-, she is actually leading a life with many commonalities with the life of an ordinary person in pursuit of happiness, quite ready to give herself to it the very first moment she believes to see it in disguise except that the disguise never unhails and happens to be the shadow of what is unreal for her. The only problem is that she does not get to realize it until after it is very late for some. How we, as audience, get to understand that it is yet another mistake is the way she realizes. The proof of the mistake is the absence of eye-contact with the lover, which is undoubtedly the primary component of love that many times brings the first sparkle of love.
Ike Graham (R. Gere), on the other hand, makes the most necessary mistake to write a fact column on the paper without actually finding out if it is the truth or not, and very similar to Mag, he realizes this quite late, he even gets to lose his job. That is what makes him pursuit the truth, eventually it turns out to be the pursuit of happiness for him, too.
What I personally received from the movie was that it does not matter how many times we make the same mistake, and it does not count much what the people say and force you to do; if somehow you feel something is not right, you should find the power in yourself to refrain from it even if it is very late, or it is going to be just another mistake. And the other thing is that "the one" is never the one who you drive crazy, but it is the one that actually drives you crazy and pulls you in and around infatuation.
