Day #2 - Falling Inn Love

Gabriella Diaz is an executive from San Francisco who, in the same day, loses the job where she is unvalued after the firm folds, and loses her non-committal boyfriend of two years. In her sadness, she enters an essay competition online to win an inn in New Zealand. After winning, she abandons her glamorous life in San Fransisco, and moves to the small, quirky, countryside town of Beechwood Downs. The inn she won is in disrepair, breaking her new-life-fairytale. She meets a mischievous goat, a meddling B&B owner, a couple who owns her new favourite coffee shop, and Jake, a smooth-talking contractor who she hates and then (spoiler alert!) falls in(n) love with!

I didn't have high hopes for this film - the title alone gave me a bad feeling about the quality of it. And I wasn't entirely wrong. The beginning of the film is very choppy and feels like the writers didn't put much thought into it, trying to rush to the main topic. However, once Gabriela reaches New Zealand, the story does become easier to keep up with and feels a lot smoother.

Falling Inn Love takes cheese to a whole new level. You get the regular romantic construction scenes of Gabriella and Jake breaking down a wall together, reaching for the same sponge and touching hands, fixing pipes together that the goat ends up breaking leading to a laugh that finishes with wistful gaze. You even get the 'girl falls over and boy catches her, leaving them lying on top of each other on the floor before she awkwardly runs away'. There's a very weird moment where they find letter in the wall and Jake does a speech about history and how "houses remember everything" - this plot point jumps in and out very randomly, seemingly for no reason, which makes you wonder why it was ever there at all.

If you are prone to cringing at movies, then I do not recommend watching this. Several moments made me cover my eyes and ears because I just refused to put myself through that scene - the worst one was Gabriella and Jake rapping in a car together. It was terrible. Plus, the ending is very random and needlessly dramatic.

If you can sit through the cringe, it is a very sweet story. Personally, it is definitely only a one-time-watch.