Guest Blogger: Quoc N.

The Proposal is revolves around a business woman named Margaret Tate who works for a publishing company in New York City. Margaret has a secretary named Andrew Paxton. One day her boss tells her that she is getting deported back to Canada because of some legal issues. Margaret lies and says that Andrew and she are engaged to prevent her from being departed back to Canada. Surprised, her boss tells her that if she makes the marriage legal, then she can stay in the United States and continue working for the publishing company. So Margaret and Andrew decide to head up to Alaska where Andrew’s parents live and to get to know him better so that when they return back to New York City, they will be questioned on each other, and if they answer all the questions correctly, Margaret will get to stay in the United States. The Proposal has many famous actors such as: Betty White, Sandra Bullock, and Ryan Reynolds. Their performance to me was great. The New York Times says that Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds did ok but they were better off doing solo performances. I disagree with this and think that both characters did an excellent job. In the movie, Ryan Reynolds’s character, Andrew, motivation was to humiliate and take advantage of his co-star, Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock’s character, Margaret, motivation was to fake a marriage with Andrew so that she could stay in the United States to work. From watching this movie, the audience is supposed to take away that just because you hate someone really badly, you never know what could happen in the future with that person. According to the New York Times, the beginning of the movie comes from different parts of different movies. I agree with this because when I first watched the movie, I thought to myself, “Where have I seen this before?” If you are someone who is into sort of romantic funny movies, The Proposal is worth your time and money.