This movie gives a bad message
I'm a 21 year old woman in her last year of university, and I love Catherine Zeta Jones, which was half the reason I watched this movie (the other being that I came across it while surfing channels, and thought it looked rather interesting).
Entertainment wise, I thought this movie was fairly good - especially if you don't have anything to do. It's mushy enough and cute, and people who are into romance would probably like it.
However, I thought that the messages were pretty negative. My age is fairly close to that of Aram's, so I can relate to him, and it's true that most people our age are figuring out what to do, enjoy children's novels, live with their parents and even live off their parents in a lot of cases. What is NOT realistic, however, is that you travel the world for 5 years when you experience a devastating breakup. Most twenty-somethings wouldn't be able to afford the trip if they paid for themselves, and if they get their funding from their parents, that kind of defeats the purpose of the trip - to gain more "life experience" and learn how to stand on one's own feet. Going backpacking for a summer, half a year, or even a year or two is fair enough, but 5 years seems a bit too long for me - it seems as if he's trying to postpone reality. And he probably did backpack in Africa and so on, but the scenes in France and England, where he went on yachts and the like and had midnight sails, seemed unnecessarily extravagant. I went to England alone last year (I'd won a competition, and the prize was plane tickets+accommodation) and I could never have afforded to do that. Punting alone cost 20 pounds (nearest thing to a yacht I can think of), which was definitely out of the question, and I did most of my travelling in London via the underground, and went to free places such as museums. I lived off instant noodle I'd bought in my home country. Anyway, I digress - the point I'm trying to make is that I didn't buy the whole 5 year world trip thing - it came off as a rich guy who wanted a change of scenery because he was in a bad mood, and more likely than not has his folks fork out for him.
And the fact that Sandy bought it, and by default embraces him with open arms! So. the next time someone ditches you because you're "too immature" for them, all you have to do is take a 5 year long jaunt around the world, and they'll have you back. Actually, I thought that Sandy's character was portrayed pretty badly as well. The scene where Aram has dinner with her friends had me cringing, since her friends were really rather rude, for someone they'd only just met and was their friend's boyfriend. The pregnancy arc also did not show her in her best light - basically she decides to marry Aram because she's pregnant with his kid, then breaks it off because she's not pregnant after all, which seems more like something a girl Aram's age would do, not a woman in her 40s with 2 kids.