8. 7 Weeks Is A Responsible Length Of Time To Get Married In
At least four key relationships in the film play out over the course of just seven weeks, with the suggestion being that all four are on their way to marriage, or have implausibly got there already, in the case of Colin Firth and his Portuguese maid. This is not a sensible approach to the diligence needed to choose a spouse. After seven weeks, you haven't seen, or crucially smelled each other at your worst, or discovered those little quirks that will quickly become like open sores on your relationship. And yes, while this is movie romance world, that doesn't mean anyone should be encouraged to make the ultimate status change in such short a time. Firth's character decides on marrying a woman he barely knows, and can hardly converse with in a shorter period than it takes most people to decide if they want to commit to Netflix. There's probably something very wrong there. Actually, come to think of it...
7. Dangerous Emotional Transference Is The Solid Bed-Rock Of Any Relationship
Firth's character Jamie smashes out of one relationship with a philandering witch who sleeps with his brother (and somehow gets away with not attending the wedding of friends she presumably also knew for a bit of afternoon delight) and into another in a matter of days. Young Sam, meanwhile, has endured the death of his mother, and is depressed because he's madly and hopelessly in love with a girl from school who he has barely had a conversation with. Neither of these people are emotionally equipped to make such decisions, and yet both are encouraged to commit fully to their new relationships with gusto. Could it be at all likely that their major traumatic events have lead to emotional transference, and they should be helped to overcome this, rather than encouraged to pack their gaping, raw wounds with something sweet and distracting?