Hookay, since I didn't get the chance to watch Cinta or Eragon or even Cicak-Man which is rather impressive for a malay movie with such an advance state of special effect *kudos to Erra Fazira's hubby*, I opted instead to watch the idiot box on sunday night. Offering little entertainment that my brain had so much needed it, I had to dig out my vcd collections that were neatly stacked in toyogo boxes that are collecting dust. And I hit the jackpot when I found myself holding this vcd and murmured to myself - I gotta watch this!I proceeded to the dvd player and soon the all too familiar evergreen song sung by Natalie Cole accompanying the name credits.
The opening scene starts with Lucy played by the wholesome Sandra Bullock, a toll collector rambling about her daily life when all of a sudden came this dashing guy rushing to get into the train and ignored her gawking at him. It was love at first sight for Lucy. After that, life wasn't the same for her and she would daydream about him practically every morning he uses the train. But she didn't had the guts to spill out her feelings for him thus keeping it to herself.
Fate intervenes when he was mugged on his way to the train and fell onto the tracks and managed to be saved in time by Lucy from an oncoming train but he passed out immediately right after he had a look at Lucy's relieved smile. He was dispatched to a nearby hospital and during this time Lucy was mistaken for his fiancee! Hilarity ensues when his family came to visit him at the hospital and Lucy had no possible way to explain the whole mixed-up situation that she had to play along as his fiancee.
Lucy had been orphaned from young with no siblings and was living on her own until that fateful day when she was introduced to his family and they all accepted her with open heart. She finally had an instant family ranging from Peter's (that was his name) parents, kid sister, grandma, a close family friend with antics of their own. That is until she met Peter's big brother, Jack, played by the charming Bill Pullman whom wasn't buying Lucy's stories and began background check on Lucy's life which is hilariously funny and touching at the same time. You can't help feeling there's a spark between the two.
Kinda remind me of my own cinta story on how I met my dear hubby. He was actually a client of the company that I worked for and I wasn't really impressed with him, I thought he was a bit 'sombong' although he kinda look sweet. Just like Lucy, I didn't have the courage to ask personal questions about him. He didn't look approachable to me at the time.
Time flown by since the last time I met him, probably 5 or 6 months after the first meeting when out of the blue he called me one fine day. Of all the 101 pick up lines that he can use to impress me, he had to go and bluntly said that I needed to cut my hair short. *I was sporting a curly shoulder length hairdo ala-ala Sharifah Aini*. It was fashionable in the mid 90's ok? He said it didn't do justice to my look and made me look fat! To cut the story short, I was totally aghast by his insensitive mocking of my hair. After all he doesn't really know me very well.
That's it! I am never going out with this guy even if he is the only guy left in this world. Nobody messes with my hair! Big mistake. Finally I summoned enough courage to tell him off and at the same time, lecturing him on acceptable manners when speaking to a girl he hardly knew. I slammed the phone down. Whoa, where did that come from? I didn't give it much thought after the incident and continued with my work and later that day he phoned me with apology words and asked for a date to explain the whole thing. I hesitated at first but in the end, I thought why not give him another chance.
So out we went together and true enough, there was something about him that made my heart softened. He carefully explained that it was his first time asking a girl out and he didn't know how to do it. When he said that I should cut my hair short coz it wasn't suitable for me it was supposed to be a compliment. And he apologized for being carelessly ignorant about my feeling. Any guy who took the trouble to explain what he did wrongly deserved a second chance. Being the gentleman that he was, I agreed to have more dates with him and the rest is history.
