My own self

Waitress is not the kind of movie I'd normally watch - a romantic comedy drama with the stress on the romantic and the drama just isn't my cup of tea. Still, it's in the vicinity of something I could watch, especially when Nathan Fillion stars as one of the lead characters together with main character Keri Russell (Elliot's old friend on Scrubs). And it was good. Yet even less of my cup of tea than I thought it would be.


The movie is the story of Jenna, a waitress with a particular gift for baking (and concieving clever ideas for) pies. She is in an unhappy marriage, and things don't improve in her mental state once she gets pregnant. Then she meets the new town doctor, and things get better. Sort of.


The movie is an absurd mixture of sappy optimism and cynical pessimism, which is the main reason why it really wasn't for me. I'm not able to - and yes, this might be my own failing - enjoy a movie where the "good" moments are about two people cheating on their spouses. That's just not for me.

That being said, it's a very sweet movie, and it's got a lot of funny moments. (Of course it does - it's got Nathan Fillion!) Additionally, it's well acted and well done, and I'm sure that to people feeling at home with morally ambigious romantic dramas, this is an excellent watch. Me, I spent the movie torn between a happy smile of the sweetness of everything (there is, for instance, a little song that's the sweetest ever) and a vague feeling of nausea on behalf of the wrongness of everything.

I probably enjoyed this a 6,5. But to someone less close-minded and weak-hearted it probably is closer to a strong 8 or even an 8,5. Because it was truthfully really well and charmingly done.