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=**In the End, All We Want is Love**= Comparing "I Think I Love My Wife" and the play, "Taming of the Shrew"

In the movie //I Think I Love My Wife//, is movie starring and directed by Chris Rock. In this movie he is a man, in a seven-year long marriage with his wife Brenda Cooper, played by Gina Torres and then ends up running into an ex-mistress of a friend of his name Nikki Tru, played by Kerry Washington. Nikki is spontaneous, travels on whim, and believes that Chris Rock's marriage is a complete joke and that it is nothing about love or excitement, it's about stability. Chris starts to believe her, and goes on random escapades with Nikki which causes trouble with his job and his family at home. He walks to the edge of the line and nearly has sex with Nikki, and the right before he embarks, he realizes that it may not be exciting and everything he ever wanted but he loved his family and to be disloyal to that would be completely... stupid.

In Taming of the Shrew there are two daughters the older, Katherine and younger, Bianca. Many suitors are in constant dispute over Bianca's love while Katherine is completely undesirable due to her harsh tongue and foul ways. Their father Baptista claims that no one is allowed to wed Bianca until Katherine gets married, s the suitors that are trying to marry Bianca set up a marriage with Katherine and Petruchio. When Katherine first goes with Petruchio she is stuck in her own ways, stubborn and mean. Petruchio "tames" Katherine and by the end she appreciates him for all he's worth and learns to love.

In no way, does this movie align, plot for plot with //The Taming of the Shrew// but there are key points that are comparable. In this movie Chris Rock plays a lot of roles, Petruchio, Bianca, and the suitors, but in my opinion he resembles most like Katherine, and since he narrated throughout the entire movie it is more like an insight of his/her thoughts. and then the breakdown where she/he finally falls in love with his/her woman/man. **Regardless of time and place stability creates love, and that love is the foundation for a happy marriage.

Petruchio: What, art thou ashamed of me? ** Before entering Katherine's father's house to celebrate the wedding of Bianca Petruchio asks her to kiss him in the middle of the street. She feels sort of embarrassed and ashamed and tries to get out of it. Petruchio is still in the process of "taming" her and eventually she ends up giving in and kissing him.

In this part of the movie, which is closer to the end, Chris Rock and his wife argue about why they no longer have sex anymore. Their marriage counselor had said that a marriage cannot survive without sex. They were both starting to feel insecure about their marriage and that is why he went found comfort in Nikki, because she needed him and since he felt needed he felt that sense of security and stability

My heart as great, my reasons haply more, To bandy word for word and frown for frown; ** Petruchio makes a bet with Lucentio, Hortensio and Baptista about when they call their wives who will return to them the first. Bianca and the widow do not return as soon as they are called, but Katherine comes running back dragging the two other wives by their ears. Then she gives a speech about faithfulness and loyalty to your husband. She finally realizes the stability that she has with Petruchio.
 * Katherine: My mind hath been as big as one of yours,

Right before he is about to cheat on his wife with his mistress Nikki, he looks at himself in the mirror and realizes everything that he is giving up and Nikki has no sense of stability at all and that she will probably lead him down of troublesome and hardship. He then goes home to his family, his life, his love.

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