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Ugh, I hated it. False Romance.

posted 9 years ago by irrrespon
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More so than other things, I hated the story. The leads are attractive which certainly helped in me sticking with it. I, with probably pretty immature wants, wanted actual romance. This want is immature as it would be like me enjoying making my handsome attractive boy dolls marry each other as if they were simply toys I could manipulate personally.

This film went ahead to be more complex with building up feelings of attraction and letting go of that attraction. Hit me over the head with a goddamn shovel before it ends, jesus.

In movies and other stories I get that romance isn't simply two people getting together, it's about the build up of this sort of relationship.

I quite simply don't care at all what happened at the end of this film.

Don't talk to me about reality and how this was how this is the best option for both of them. I didn't enjoy this. The horny me surely enjoyed that this film depicted them having sex more than a couple times and that it focused almost entirely on them, but the scenario where this happened only once a year and that it wasn't something that was good for either of them, I don't care for more of that.

So yeah, I think the film is quite fine with other aspects, I utterly detest the story. The story isn't a bad one, not poorly written, but I simply don't care about these stories.

[–] plazbo 9 years ago

I think you missed a scene. the "much later" scene at the end with his sons now in their late teens. Has the two leads kiss in view of the wife and she doesn't react.

[–] BluCobalto 8 years ago

I don't think they were both Cooper's sons. One was, but the other was Berney, Luis' boyfriend (as you can see both Cooper and Luis put an arm around each his own partner's shoulder.

The wife just came to accept (don't know whether out in the open or secretly) there was something strong between them, and just felt contented with what she had.
You can see that, while throughout the movie the director always showed their lives apart as never overlapping (it's always either Cooper and his wife or Luis alone), at the end they shared moments all together with their partners.

They kept nurturing and accepting their love (as you can infer from the spontaneous kiss at the end) but, for Cooper's family's sake, decided to act upon it only once a year (same old hotel room), as once Cooper said, leaving the world behind closed doors.

[–] danielmartin-3 7 years ago

I totally see your point. I'd call it post-modern romantic love. You can love a person, but don't necessarily have to end up being with that one person only.

In the case of the characters, there must have been some sort of acceptance by all parts involved and different forms of love coexisted. It is something I don't know I would be willing or capable of experiencing, but I see it happening more and more often around me.

Beautiful movie. Reminded of Same time, Next Year with Alan Alda.