And, by some miracle, it brings her back to the bar and just when she makes her move, he backs away. She battles with the idea Dex is too good for her, while he does the typical guy facing a big decision stuff. This leads to a confrontational badminton game, which leads to a confrontational night at the bar, leading to a walk in the rain, leading to reminiscing. “Well, then, butt out,” she says, and then everyone goes back to the Hamptons the next weekend. “I hate the fact that you yield to her at every turn,” he says to her, “…Rachel, you deserve to be happy.” He catches onto the burgeoning affair and tells Rachel exactly what she needs to hear: that Dex is being a “d*ckhead” and she is being “stupid.” He is right, of course, but if she were to really listen to him, there would be no movie. What is important to Rachel, of course, Darcy can never know, while Darcy wears her own em0tions on her sleeve.įor depth, Rachel has another friend, Ethan (Krasinski). Her friendship with Darcy is long, and surface level deep. Rachel is awkward and articulate, undoubtedly like many of those who enjoyed the 2004 novel of the same name, will watch this movie, and somewhat identify with it. “You’re thirty,” Darcy opines to Rachel, “You can’t afford to be picky.” This less than human presentation allows the viewer to feel better about the betrayal, and thereby justify it. Every step of the way, we are reminded that it is Darcy who is the problem, being self-absorbed, garish and crude. What could have been a simple thing has now been dragged into a ridiculous illicit relationship. Somehow these two lawyers have lived for years unable to be honest with Darcy. Years later, on the eve of her birthday and the verge of his wedding, the romance bursts like a wildfire. Flashbacks reveal that it Darcy actually interrupted a blossoming romance between Rachel and Dex. Darcy’s fiancee, Dex, is revealed to have originally been a college friend of Rachel’s. The story goes out of its way to present Darcy as selfish, egotistical and somewhat mocking of Rachel. As the story starts, we see that Darcy has organized a party celebrating her “best” friend’s 30th. Rachel (Goodwin) has been afflicted by the self-centered friendship of Darcy (Hudson) for most of her life.
Something Borrowed is the bookworm’s fantasy. Screenplay Jennie Snyder Urman based on the book Something Borrowed by Emily Giffinĭeception, by another name, is the good girl’s revenge. Starring Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, Colin Egglesfield, Steve Howey, Ashley Williams
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