I really am such a sucker for romantic films
Just caught Lost in Translation. Awesome film with brilliant acting by Johansson. Yah, the fact that my wife acted in the film played a part, but seriously, it was brilliant acting. She was only 18 then!
Sad romantic films are always a tearjerker for me, though the tears don't really flow out (?)
(500) days of summer, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, and now lost in translation. Sad, sad films really.
I hate it always when romantic films end up happy. Like seriously, sad stuffs occur more than happy stuffs. How many more couples break up as compared to couples who are on the verge of seperating, but cus of some random event they can get married within a day, by running to the altar on foot or something. These sad films really show what's real.
SPOILER
Like in 500 days of summer, after a 500 day long relationship, they break up. Shows the harsh reality, that no matter how sweet and lovinglydovey you can get at first, all may not end well. Zooey told the guy who was a fool for love and marriage that she isn't a marriage or commitment kind of girl, and they agreed to go out on a relationship with no strings attached, no deep feelings for each other. After they broke up, she went on to get married with a guy she barely dated for long, simply cus 'he is the one'. Sucks to be him, really, being such a fool for her and thats what bitchslapped him in his face at the end of it.
Similarly in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, after a quarrel they went to erase their memories of each other (sounds lame but its a really nice movie). And during the process when they realise that they in fact want to keep the memories, it's too late for them to reverse the process. They wake up the next morning with no recollection whatsoever of each other, of how they had been such a loving couple just the night before. Tearjerker, yes.
I can go on and on and really, noone would want to listen. But this is me la hor, I like to talk and discuss about movies on and on.
I'm also one of them, a fool for love.