Anna Backens - Hitch

Growing up, I was told that "honesty is the best policy" and I wasn't really reminded of that quote until I saw the movie hitch. In Proverbs 10:9, it states, "He who walks with integrity walks securely, But he who perverts his ways will become known." This principle can be applied to the main characters. In the beginning of the film Albert, an overweight financial advisor, falls in love with multi-million-dollar Allegra Cole. He hires a "date doctor" Alex Hitchens, to change his appearance so that Allegra will notice him at work. Albert tries to put on an appearance of the person he thinks that Allegra would be interested in, not himself. Ironically, the advice he follows from Hitchens only helps him a little, it is the moments when he is himself, splilling mustard on his shirt and throwing his inhaler down the street after being frustrated after a date, that causes Allegra to love him.
It was only when he was honest, that he found love. Alex, also had the same problem. He made a profession out of finding the perfect plan to have women fall in love with him, but as the proverb says, a person's way will be seen if dishonest. He made it a practice to figure out what others want, instead of just being who he was. When he thought he had relationships and life figured out, it suddenly came crumbling down.

Alex meets Sarah, who is a gossip columnist and when the two first meet each other, do not tell the other what they really do for a profession. Ironically, Sarah is investigating the "date doctor" but doesn't know its Alex because he doesn't tell her who he really is. Alex doesn't know what Sarah is writing about because she doesn't tell him who her next top story is about. The two fall in love, but their predicaments become horrible when they find out the truth about each other. Since, they weren't honest in the beginning, their lies became larger until it all came out and was much more hurtful than had ever been intended. The moral of the movie is to be honest with others so that your life will be seen for what it really is. It makes me wonder about images people put up in society and how we always are striving to plan out lives to prevent bad things from happening to us. The movie showed how, when people are honest, they run into less trouble than when they try to construct an image of their live that isn't true.