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Crazy Stupid Love Theme

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Theme of Crazy Stupid Love

The film, Crazy Stupid Love starts off right away with Emily telling Cal that she wants a divorce. Feeling rather depressed, Cal turns to the bar scene to find some comfort and someone to listen to his sorrowful life story. Jacob, an expert on how to talk to and pick up women, feels sorry for Cal and decides to help him rediscover his manhood. Through doing this, Cal gains all sorts of confidence that he never knew he had, but also realizes that he misses his wife as well. There are a couple other sub-plots within the main storyline of the movie, and all of them have one thing in common, love. Love is the undisputed underlying theme of the movie. If you weren’t able to tell by the title of the film, …show more content…

Silence can be just as powerful as words when it comes to love. Not silence in the form of no seeing and not talking to another person, but silence when you’re with, or around them. The theme of the movie was conveyed through sub-plots along with the main plot. When you are first introduced to Jacob, you would never think that he would be the type to fall in love. He’s too caught up in the moment and thinks mostly of just himself, until he meets Hannah. After initially being shut down and rejected by Hannah, she comes back and wants to hook up with him. When they go back to his place, they get to talking and he says that one of his moves is that he picks up women above his head to replicate a famous dance move and that’s what gets them to sleep with him. Hannah becomes curious and wants to see if he can actually do it, so he turns on the romantic song and completes the move. Stunned with disbelief, Hannah doesn’t move and Jacob just holds her above his head and this is where the silence comes in. They stay there for a moment and don’t say a word, while they just peer into each other’s eyes and I feel like this is when Jacob has the sense that he is in love with this

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