Movie Review

Movie title : Music and Lyric

Genre : Romantic comedy

OST    : Way Back Into Love by Hugh Grant and Haley Bennet 

Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a former pop star. As one of the founding members of the band PoP!, he enjoyed considerable fame and success during the 1980s and early 1990s. Fifteen years after PoP! disbanded, Fletcher is a self-acknowledged has-been, reprising his 80's hits for audiences of his now middle-aged fans. After years of performing in increasingly humiliating venues (such as high school reunions and theme parks), a chance to recapture some of his former stardom arrives when mainstream pop singer Cora Corman (Haley Bennet) asks him to write a duet to be called "Way Back into Love" for her. To Alex's dismay, however, he has only a few days to compose the song. Furthermore, he hasn't written anything in ten years, and even with his old band PoP! he usually only wrote the melodies, not the lyrics. His manager (Brad Garrett) helps him to search for a lyricist, without much luck.

Alex meets Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore) when she comes to his house to water his plants. Sophie is a former creative writing student reeling from a disastrous romance. She is also a writer with little confidence in her abilities. While Alex and a hired lyricist try to come up with words, Sophie comes up with words to herself while watering the plants. Alex requests Sophie's assistance on the song, and although she initially declines, after a series of conversations with him, she agrees to collaborate. There are signs of a budding romance as the two write the song, which they finish in three days. Soon, Sophie runs into her ex-lover Sloan Cates, who wrote a very insulting book about her. Alex assists Sophie in trying to confront him. They go back to Alex's house and make love under the piano.

All seems well when Cora likes the song and decides to perform it and put it on her next album. However, Cora adds a highly sexualized,"Steamy and sticky" Indian-themed vibe which clashes with the spirit of Alex and Sophie's work. Sophie is determined to talk Cora out of the addition, only to find Alex vetoing her efforts for fear he will lose the chance to work with Cora and finally revive his career. In the ensuing argument, Alex reveals a deep pessimism towards the music business, admitting that Cora's addition is awful but viewing it as the cost of doing business. Scandalized by Alex's willingness to demean his talent and hurt by his argument that she is refusing to live in the real world, Sophie leaves him.

Cora invites Alex and Sophie to the first concert on her new tour, at which she and Alex are due to premiere "Way Back into Love." However, to Sophie's surprise, Cora announces "a new song by Alex Fletcher", and she begins to leave, under the impression that Alex stripped her of her songwriting credit. Alex instead performs an entirely new song ("Don't Write Me Off") written by himself about his and Sophie's relationship, despite his admitted incapability to write lyrics. Alex tells Sophie backstage that he convinced Cora to remove the risqué Indian-music-theme of "Way Back into Love" as an attempt to "win her back". The original version of the song is performed by the two (Alex and Cora), after which Alex and Sophie kiss backstage.

" I like this movie because the story is very unique and memorable, emotion in this film can bring me into the atmosphere in the story. I can feel how disappointed shopie when Alex force in every way that he makes up his lyrics but I also can feel how happy shopieat the end of the story."