Just got home from watching Looking for Alibrandi and Thank God he met Lizzie from the Aussie film fest. Looking for Alibrandi is a lighthearted look at a teen girl's rite of passage (based on the most stolen book in Australian schools to boot), and it's quite enjoyable. However, what set me thinking was the other movie.

Thank God he met Lizzie was edgier. It's about Guy, who meets and marries Lizzie after a whirlwind romance. But the story isn't about Lizzie really, as we can tell from the flashbacks Guy has during his wedding dinner. We see Guy with his ex-girlfriend Jenny, who's probably the love of his life but he didn't realise it when they were together. We see them fall in love and later fall apart. There's this scene where both of them were tense and tearful cos they were still in love, but their relationship seemed to have soured beyond redemption. He said, there's no more magic between us... where did the magic go? And she replied, why do we need to have it? Then he retorted angrily, cos we're alive! And they both knew they've reached the end. Somehow, that scene shook me and probably quite a few in the audience up.

To paraphrase something Guy said in the movie.. "We never know while we're happy. We only remember being happy."