A common movie trope is the selfish single person finds fulfillment through love, or adversity. For example in the film “About a Boy”, Hugh Grants shallow playboy starts caring about people and makes his life complicated.

I’m going to say the characters life in the first half of the film seems much more attractive to me at the moment, and if he had of ditched his judgmental friends that wanted him to “grow up” and be as dull as them he would have been much better off.

I’m starting to think most Hugh Grant movies are based around the idea of somebody with a perfectly reasonable life starts feeling dissatisfied (quite often from external sources), and falls into complicated situations that probably won’t last.

I’m a bit over living in interesting times. Can I just go back to living in that first uncomplicated half of the film please? Possibly without the 80s hair though.