Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing, now ladies, before you skip over this fishing story, know that it is in fact a very romantic story, and guys before think that this is only a love story…well actually, yes, it is only a love story. The fishing really only provides the environment for the story to evolve.
But guys, before you leave, know this. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is not your typical emotional roller-coaster movie, written to drag tears up, screaming and clawing, from our macho centre, located somewhere in the depths of our balls sack. No this cleverly crafted stylish tale comes at love, not typically from straight on (a most American trait) but from the periphery of life, a style more suited to where the film was created, England.
So guys, we have no grand gesture that instigates love, no earth shattering wrong committed to break the couple apart and no insightful, emotionally charge, incident that brings them back together. What we do have is, in fact, everyday life, that’s all it is, just everyday life. Something that gives hope to very ordinary, normal man that maybe, just maybe, there is hope finding real love of each of us.
Ewan McGregor, as far from his Star Wars - Obi-Wan Kenobi character as you can possible get, plays the reluctant Dr. Jones who at first is dismissive of a Sheik’s ambition to create Salmon fishing in, as the title suggest, Yemen.
Enter the English PM’s Press Secretary, who sees this as great PR for the Government and pushes the idea using Government funding and assets. The book (of the same name by Paul Torday) from which the movie is based, plays mostly to the political satire generated from this situation but screen writer Simon Beaufoy, preferred to centre on the love story.
Emily Blunt, as Harriet, continues to excel as an actor from the first time I saw her in The Devil Wears Prada, bringing nuance and believability to her role as the instigator of the Sheik's wishes. I look forward to seeing her in The Five Year Engagement later this year.
I can see that this movie will not appeal to the typical Love Story viewers, because it does not evoke the out springing of emotion resulting in copious tears usually associated with this genre but it remains a charming Love Story that a guy can take his significant other to, without the needed box of Kleenex. So really a win win movie experience.