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Greatest Movie About Romantic Love


While this movie is about personal choices concerning death, it is primarily a movie about love. It shows love in a way that no other movie ever could.
As was true in Ramon's life, two womyn fall in love with a man who can never physically satisfy their love. He can never so much as stroke their cheeks. But you understand that, of course, he feels the same things he would have felt if he hadn't broken his neck and so do they. So it makes you examine how much of love is "in your head," that is, in your thoughts and feelings and how that relates to the powerful urges to express it physically. Thoughts and feelings and the physical are not separate. That is a false dichotomy.
One of the greatest movies I've seen in my life. Absolutely brilliant writing. Great direction and great acting by Javier Bardem

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