Armando's Reccomendation: The Proposal

Hello Bloggers! It’s funny how you get inspired to write stuff at the late hours of the night (at least that happens to me often). This post is about one of my favorite movies of all time, The Proposal. This awesomely epic movie is starred by my favorite actress Sandra Bullock, you may know her from Miss Congeniality or a more recent movie, The Blind Side (breathtaking inspirational movie, based on a true story, which earned her the first Oscar). The movie is an extremely funny romantic-comedy but also has a good plot and message.

The movie is about Margaret Tate, a successful editor for a New York publisher. Margaret is Canadian and is facing deportation for an expired visa. To maintain her citizenship she decides to hatch a scheme to marry Andrew, her hardworking, aspiring writer, assistant. Andrew is skeptical but agrees to the plan if she gives him a promotion. An INS agent isn’t convinced of the marriage and decides to arrange a test of their marriage. Margaret has to tag along with Andrew to Alaska for his grandmothers birthday. Margaret meets his family and is immediately given a warm welcome, much to Margaret’s surprise since she grew up without a loving home. She experiences and sees a lot of things: a feud between Andrew and his Dad, she meets an ex-girlfriend of Andrew, but most importantly she starts realizing things about herself when she is starting to be treated like part of her family.

This movie is a good example of external and internal journeys and the relation between the two. Margaret experiences an external journey when she travels to Alaska and experiences a whole new culture, lifestyle and climate. At first she doesn’t adjust well to this abrupt change, but slowly she starts feeling more comfortable. She opens up her mind a little bit and follows the family’s recommendations to having a good time. Her internal journey is mostly about her realizing that the reason that she is so hard on Andrew is because he is a hard worker and an excellent assistant; this is the reason why she didn’t promote him, so he wouldn’t leave her. Her attitude and personality is also due to the fact that she grew up without a family and as she is being treated like a part of Andrew’s she starts opening up and lowering her emotional wall. They ultimately end up falling in love and marrying each other for all the right reasons (Aww ♥). I recommend this movie to everyone (and any movie with Sandra Bullock because she is the best actress EVER)!