Here`s to Paul, the guy who walked through hell for his babe.

God, I feel for Paul. What suffering this guy has to go through, and yet still he is being called the insecure bad guy and gets all the blame from Katie.

She lies to him about not having sex with Alex Wilson Dixon and says they only "hooked up", but brings up a blowjob Paul got from an actress who Katie is threatened by because Katie thinks shes not as pretty as her. When Paul brings it up and says hes glad Dixon "gave it to her in New York after the poledance", they do not deny it and the other guy is looking proudly into the round.

Paul is not throwing a childish fit over imaginary things. He has all the reason to believe that he will loose her if he does not fight for her. That is pretty much the opposite of being insecure. He sees things clearly, but first has a hard time adjusting to the situation of not having her for granted. And in his current situation, without a job and just having had a fight with her, good luck standing up to a guy with tons of money and fame and six months of uninterrupted intimacy with your girlfriend.

Paul steps from one hole into the next along the way. But surprisingly takes each turn on the highroad, well sort of. In the end he should have known better than to hang out with the stalker girl, but I guess thats where he shows hes just human too, and I think most men in that situation would have probably done more, just to get revenge. And even when his girlfriend has her phone on voicemail for three hours, when she is in her own house with that sleazy guy, who she bent over for indulged in some fantasies and anticipation of the next six months, Paul still snaps out of it to see whats going on for the first time in the damn movie. He kept her going, trying to proove that he loves her and trusts her, and if he does not step into that room in that moment, shes gone, because she is the insecure person all along, but does not want to believe it. even when good friends and Paul keep telling her she should stop hating herself.

No idea why the movie still kept painting Paul as the one who had to change for her, when it was absolutely clear who really should have changed. The guy went through hell for her, situations where most real men would have already been at boling point, he even went with the full-on white knight approach, trying to support her even though it killed him inside because he knew what was going on from that actor. And just to be clear : In a real situation you do what he does in the end most women with a similar character like Katie would probably just call you a whiney mommas boy, take the job and *beep* this other guy for six months straight, maybe you get some pity sex on that last evening.

I went through stuff like that and all that hollywood bs "you got to let her go to win her back". Yeah that stuff might work on screen, but in the real world, you are the guy who is left behind and maybe gets a birthday wish on facebook a couple years later.

In a normal situation, when its already so far like it was in that home-dungeon scene, you have already lost the game.

In the end I dont even know why he kept humiliating himself infront of her when she basically just says thanks for the job and takes the taxi the next day. That taxi wont turn around if its not a movie where ppl expect some happy ending :)