No Love Lost: the "truths" of rom-coms
August 20th 2010 10:47
Watching sappy rom-coms is a way to release stress, ask any self confessed romantic. Luckily for you I'm not that self confessed romantic and hence this entry is not about soul mates or lovers or how awesome Sleepless in Seattle is (tho i do enjoy that movie). No I prefer tragedies and epics rather sweetly packaged story about "love" and completely surpassing the reality of life and everything that goes with it and leaving you feeling "warm and fuzzy". Do you ever feel warm and fuzzy when someone hurts your feelings? No? I didn't think so. Everything seems so easy in romantic comedies - boy meets girl, boy and girl have great sex and then they fall deeply in love, boy must stuff up in some way or another, girl gets really angry and upset then followed by a few shots of them feeling lonely with some sad song in the background. But never fear the boy will discover something to fix whatever he stuffed up and the film ends with them standing in a dark street in each others embrace. In between all this there are few witty moments and humour (at least the good ones do anyway) and charming characters with one-liners that are engraved in your memory ("You had me at hello").
But these are all LIES. LIES, I SAY! Complete bullshit. As if it was that easy for boy to meet girl. First The boy is never that charming, witty or attractive without being potentially gay. If he is good looking there must be something wrong with him - arrogant, egoistic, pansy, meathead or simply boring. And if your standard isn't as ridiculously high like mine you may settle. And there is nothing wrong with settling but this isnt about those unfortunate few that settle, no this is about the few that don't settle...ever. So you keep looking for the perfect man and be repeatedly disappointed whether he is awesome and then realised that there is no chemistry between you two and end up being a really awesome friends instead or come upon your George Clooney - ticks all the boxes apart from that box that says single. However by some miracle you find the perfect person but does that mean your story has ended in each others embrace in the rain? No because life happens and nothing ever goes according to plan...ever. The person you once thought was interesting is boring, the really funny thing he does with is nose is just plain gross or you got that great opportunity to move to Uganda. People drift apart and fight and get bored with each other. That's reality and sometimes people get hurt and sometimes people recover and sometimes people don't recover. And if they do recover they do it all over again. Why doesn't a rom-com show this? Why can't they show reality that when you do decide to settle, that its not all birds and flowers and bees but really two people realising that this is as good as its going to get.
But these are all LIES. LIES, I SAY! Complete bullshit. As if it was that easy for boy to meet girl. First The boy is never that charming, witty or attractive without being potentially gay. If he is good looking there must be something wrong with him - arrogant, egoistic, pansy, meathead or simply boring. And if your standard isn't as ridiculously high like mine you may settle. And there is nothing wrong with settling but this isnt about those unfortunate few that settle, no this is about the few that don't settle...ever. So you keep looking for the perfect man and be repeatedly disappointed whether he is awesome and then realised that there is no chemistry between you two and end up being a really awesome friends instead or come upon your George Clooney - ticks all the boxes apart from that box that says single. However by some miracle you find the perfect person but does that mean your story has ended in each others embrace in the rain? No because life happens and nothing ever goes according to plan...ever. The person you once thought was interesting is boring, the really funny thing he does with is nose is just plain gross or you got that great opportunity to move to Uganda. People drift apart and fight and get bored with each other. That's reality and sometimes people get hurt and sometimes people recover and sometimes people don't recover. And if they do recover they do it all over again. Why doesn't a rom-com show this? Why can't they show reality that when you do decide to settle, that its not all birds and flowers and bees but really two people realising that this is as good as its going to get.
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