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This melodramatic, overly mushy movie made my heart pound faster with annoyance and the ginormous regret that I actually spent around 180 bucks just to watch this flop of a film. I could've spent a little more to have a mani-pedi at Dashing Divas.
My bad... oopps.
Three points why I absolutely HATED this film:
# 1: Misrepresentation of a Drug Rep's life.
# 2: Cheesier than Chiz Whiz drama.
# 3: Go back to numbers 1 and 2.
Not that I don't like drama. I mean, I'm histrionic and j'adore drama (drama queen here, heller?!) but the lines and the whole story are just painstakingly sappy. Spell that out for you, it's S-A-P-P-Y... Sappy!
Yes, I hate love stories. I've had enough of them when I started reading Jude Deveraux in 4th grade and ended up masturbating on the the thoughts of those elaborate love scenes in her romantic novels. I hate love stories, because they make girls look for Prince Charmings instead of swallowing the bitter truth that the Prince Charmings are actually a.) gay, b.) married or c.) all of the above and all they will end up with is the Frog.
I hate love stories because it makes wimps out of women. We don't need feminine wimps in the 21st century, people. We need strong, Amazonian femme fatales who can survive the jungle of Industrialization and Globalization.
I hate love stories because they mask the underlying problems of life --- poverty, hopelessness, sickness, suffering.
I hate love stories because they are opiates. They temporarily take away the pain of living, and make you crave for more. It's a crazy outlook. Shame on the hopeless romantics.
Now, let me go back to point number one. Point numero uno why I don't like this movie at all --- the total, unjust, unfitting misrepresentation of a drug rep's life. Shame on you, Pfizer for backing up (or even allowing) this movie to be shown. This did not help at all alleviate the current status of your medical representatives. Or, Dear Pfizer... do you acknowledge that your medical reps are promiscuous and absolutely do not have any work ethics at all? You do understand that the misrepresentation of drug reps in this movie would echo a big blow to the image of drug reps worldwide, regardless of the company? Again, SHAME ON YOU. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Pfizer, Pfizer, Pfizer... the marketing use of your name, company, logos and practices on the movie only means one thing: you are already losing hold of the Number One position of pharmaceuticals and without new products in your pipeline, you are getting old and lame. Another shame. Another, another shame. Revamp your style, or else big giants like Merck, Glaxo Smithkline and Sanofi Aventis will get the better of you. Or how about Lilly? Cialis, perhaps? Hah.
Do you know how it feels like to drive all day, carrying big boxes of samples around, plastering a smile on your face and a cheery disposition despite of the indifferent people around you? Do you know how it feels like to wait for what seems like an eternity, only to find out that the person you are waiting for will not accommodate you? Do you know how it feels like when you passionately detail the safety and efficacy of your products, and only to be bluntly told "I don't need that... What trips can you offer me? Can you send me to this international convention? I will double my prescriptions."? Do you know how it feels like to brave the floods, suffer the sweltering heat of the sun, work overtime without pay, and be misjudged, maltreated? Do you know how it feels like to hold on to a calculator for dear life, compute for sales figures and dream of sales targets every night every cut off... just to send your child to school, or put food on the table? Do you know how it feels like to drive for clients at ungodly hours, sacrificing your quality time for your self, that SO or your family? Do you know how it feels like to be a modern slave? Do you know how it feels like to serve beyond service, to put forth your life to make another person's life better? Do you know how it feels like to be a Drug Rep?
No, you don't!
If this movie has hammered into your bird brain the idea that drug reps stay at home texting random girls (or boys, for that matter) waiting to be fucked, think again. Decent medical reps do not do that. Decent medical reps do not go about stealing samples of competitors and dumping them on the backyard garbage. Decent medical reps serve with honor and earn a decent living for themselves, their families and for their companies.
You may not know it, you may not appreciate it, but your doctors would not know what the best drug is for you and your condition if not for the decent medical representative visiting him/her religiously. Of course, there is PIMS, PUMS and the internet. But nothing will ever come close to the exact, blow by blow account of an explanation detailing every single thing you need to know about a drug by a medical rep.
Medical representatives are there to make life easier for doctors and patients. They are simply not there to throw away boxes of samples and shower sponsorships for trips, money and fame. They are there to serve a purpose, a higher calling... of extending service to the community in spite of all the odds they face.
So the next time you run into a drug rep at the doctors' clinics... think twice. It should not be a naked Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway fucking each other with Viagra on the background that should come to your mind, but a picture of a self-sacrificing man or woman wanting to make your life better with whatever drugs they have on hand.
And please, check the label. Better not be "Pfizer made it".
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