Anyone feel sorry for the fiance

Nope, I didn't feel sorry for him.

He might be upset for a bit after the break-up, but I don't think he'd be truly heartbroken. His TRUE LOVE is his career as a chef.

Sophie was actually being supportive by not dumping him immediately after Verona. She stood by him, until only a day or two before the opening of his restaurant. Everything is pretty much set.

Her presence or absence in his life wouldn't have made much of an impact.

Actually, my guess is that was the real status of Sophie throughout their relationship. Not just during the "starting the restaurant" phase. She was just an accessory in his life. As long as she wasn't being an inconvenience to Victory's plans, then the relationship is fine.

Sophie's only demand was for that "pre-honeymoon" holiday for a few days. And even that he couldn't give to her. Just a few days in exchange for pretty much the rest of their relationship being all about Victor and his "passion."

I can only blame her naivete and youth for being attracted to his passionate nature and not realizing right away that everything else will come second to his love for cooking.

I thought Charlie was a great guy. Charlie may have been a busy lawyer, but he definitely had no qualms accompanying his grandmother to lookout for her. The guy knows how to value the people he cares about. A better match for Sophie, definitely.

I agree with mattbg,

Beside this, the whole storyline was a cliché. Choosing someone as a fiancée is not just like buying a T-Shirt or some stuff. You choose him with much more thinking & real love. When you prefer someone else during just a week then you're not a lover! You'll be in love with every cat! jumping on the wall every week. I didn't like this movie at all.

Thanks.

People are so anxious to see everything in black and white. It's easier.

Victor was not supposed to be a horrible person. He was just obsessed with his restaurant and did not attempt to make room in his life for Sophie- she would have always come second.

This may have been ok when they were first together, but people change, they figure things out. They try not to make mistakes they'll regret years later.

Victor will meet a woman as into cooking as he, and be much happier.

If anything I felt like she didn't show much interest in his career. He was opening a new restaurant which is a pretty big deal. She was writing a little story that in real life probably wouldn't even get published. He was supportive but he had his own stuff going on.

Who cares if he was a little self-absorbed? She cheated on him, then dumped him in front of his employees. Not cool.

Actually, this is a good point. Nevermind her treatment of Victor: what about the completely non-entity that is Charlie? How was he of interest other than to talk with an English accent and show up whenever she needed him? Did he even have anthing else to do with his time?

The message I get from this is that women like this girl want men who have no passions of their own and serve only to worship the ground they walk on 24x7. It's why, in my earlier comment, I said that it was not trivializing single urban womanhood because it *really is* trivial.

Far better to go looking for a guy who has nothing of subsance in his life and talks like a cartoon aristocrat?

Relationships endure because people are independently happy, not because one depends on the other for their happiness. This is a fictional relationship and anyone who goes chasing this ideal will likely fail.