Love is something that you feel in your heart, it is something that makes you want to get up in the morning and help you through your day. Love can be difficult and some don’t want to feel the pain that may come with it but if you open your heart it can be one of the greatest feelings a person could feel.
Movies depict love in glamorized way; they show a false expectation to what love really is like. Movies like The Notebook or even a personal favorite of mine, Notting Hill, depict love in romanticized manner. A typical relationship in most romance movies consist of the perfect man, the perfect girl, two people from two different worlds and a relationship that has more ups and downs than a rollercoaster.
There are always fights and some are a bit brutal, fights that are meant to make the audience react but if that happened in our real life relationships we would be done with that person. The relationships in romance movies have so much drama that when you actually get into a relationship it seems odd how you and your partner have nothing to fight over. The truth is that in movies the couple fights over some dispute while in real life a couple most of the time just talks it out.
Another false expectation is that the man of your dreams will take you on the date of your dreams, and sometimes it may come true, but sometimes the man of your dreams isn’t this guy who looks like he came out of a magazine, but someone regular who in your eyes looks like perfect and that is what matters.
Movies make it seem like as if the couple will stay together forever, however, our real life relationships are not frozen in time. In movies the couple gets together at the end, they kiss and then the credits roll, which then us, the audience, figures that the couple no longer will have any disputes and will stay together forever; in real life, though, a couple will have more fights, will have more break ups, and their relationship won’t always be perfect, but that is what makes it real. One thing that I have noticed a lot about romantic movies is that the characters base their life off their relationship. It seems like their whole world revolves around loving their significant other, but reality is that we have other things going on in our world rather than only worrying about our relationship. We have other problems and concerns happening, we cannot base all of our time on one person when we have lives ahead of us.
Movies won’t always depict the truth, they show us what we want to see on a screen for two hours, because let’s be honest, we don’t want to see typical everyday relationships, we want to see dramatic relationships that make us laugh or cry or even both. However, we shouldn’t base our real life relationship with the made up ones or else our relationships will never flourish.
