I loved this movie. I thought I was going to class it too cheesy, but there were some great actresses in it (Joan Cusack, Michelle, Kim Cattral(sp?) and even if the film had turned out to be cheesy, which in my opinion it wasn't, the great acting talents more than made up for it. And 'The Jumping Shrimp' was great entertainment.
For the few of you who are debating the realism and 'how ridiculous' it is that she just dropped physics which she was good at to do figure skating- which she was also good at. Well, that was the whole point! So ew of us actually get to say 'you know what? Screw all this I'm gonna do what I wanna do and follow my dream'- unfortnuately we are so often stuck in the mind set of 'study.education.degree.work' which even if you're excellent at it may not be for you.
That was Casey's deal. Yes she was a genius at Physics, but it wasn't her calling. If she had gone to Harvard she wouldn't have been excited or thrilled, she would have been bored out of her skull and that's what she realized. That she only felt she was truly do something, that she was really alive and enjoying herself was when she was skating. Like she said to her Mom, "No, Mom, I'm giving up your dream. I'm going after mine". I love the film for that message- it gives you just that little bit of hope to follow your own dream. Whether the hope is fabricated or not, I really don't care. I just think it's a very uplifting message and a great movie.
