What is it? - 2017 indie romcom
The Big Sick is based on the two writers' of the movie's actual relationship, focusing on how the leads have to confront their interracial cultural differences to end up together. This tension isn't even the heaviest part of the film, as the title of the film might actually mean something. But luckily, it doesn't drown in these heavy subjects, in large part due to the comedy of the film. The male lead, Kumail, is a comedian, and much of his half of the story revolves around his attempts to make it big in stand up comedy. Understandably, having a lot of comedians in the scene leads to at least some laughs. The female lead, Emily, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago studying psychology (NEVER TRUST A PSYCH/PSYCH-ADJACENT MAJOR) who is regrettably probably right in the inevitable argument despite her choice of field of study. In fact, I think the argument reveals fundamental irreconcilable differences in their relationship and the two of them should've ended up heartbroken but fortunately for the real life writing couple, that's not how things panned out. Regardless, cute movie, a little too long, I think the Forrest Gump comment in it ("That's why I don't go on the internet. You go there and people hate Forrest Gump") is dumb because Forrest Gump is lowkey an evil film where history is portrayed as merely a series of events that happens and anyone who acts otherwise is villainized.
LENGTH - 120 minutes
SCORE - 6.2/10
Forrest Gump Score - 0/10