What women love about romantic comedies it’s the perfect date movie with the warm and fuzzy feelings we walk away with after. But unlike the movies, real life love doesn’t always have a fairytale ending. Here are a few movies based on love but showcase the realities of love, these are romantic movies with lessons we can apply to our own love stories:
Blue Valentine
The dark and somber movie on love stars the beautiful and talented Michelle Williams and the equally beautiful and talented Ryan Gosling. You can almost divide this movie up into its two parts by title ‘Blue’ and ‘Valentine’ parts. The ‘Valentine’ portion of the movie is a sweet love story about to young lovers falling for each other despite their unwanted circumstances they are dealt. The ‘Blue’ segment chronicles their desperate struggle with coming to terms with the fact their love is no longer. The viewer walks away learning more about marriage in under 200 minutes than any self-help book will teach.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carey takes a break from his potty humor comedies to play a serious and helpless man who falls in love with the oddball and sexy Kate Winslet. With an interesting concept of having the ability to erase any memory you choose, this couple discovers what that means to erase all the bad and the good in their relationship. Sometimes it’s just best to take the bad with the good in a relationship.
The Last Kiss
Zach Braff and former reality TV star Jacinda Barrett portray a couple in their early 30’s discover they are pregnant with their first child. A scary time for Braff’s character, his heart wanders toward a doe-eyed college student played by Rachel Bilson. Mistakes are made and consequences are in full force. A strong cast of actors and an amazing soundtrack, Blythe Danner says it best in this movie: “Life is pretty much in the grays for the most part and if you insist always on black and white… you are going to be very unhappy”.
Closer
Based on a group of four Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts are troublesome individuals dealing with the deceit and the struggle to find what they want out of love.Each character slowly becomes unraveled in the emotional downward spiral they call love. With lots of intense scene and crude language, this movie is not for the weak hearted, but you will learn that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
American Beauty
An Oscar winning movie in 1999, won best director, actor and picture and a few others Oscars. This is a must see. This dark movie about a frustrated suburban father played by Kevin Spacey and his process through his mid-life crisis, when everyone around seems to be having their own problems. Every character in this movie is struggling and can stem from love, or the lack thereof. The end of the movie put things in perspective when you actually take a step back and examine your life.
Grab some tissues and prepare for great acting and believable themes. Remember love and relationships aren’t always fairytales, and that is perfectly fine. There can be lots to learn from these five movies.
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