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August 8, 2023,
If you in a great, long-term relationship, these days, you should be really grateful.
Many are not.
For those of us who are not, we can at least dream about being in one. True?
Where can we go to view some dream relationships or at least fantasize about the potential perfect relationship?
At the movies.
Dream Lover is a 1993 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Nicholas Kazan.
It stars James Spader and Mädchen Amick, with Bess Armstrong, Frederic Lehne, and Larry Miller in supporting roles.
We love how this relationship began.
The film opens on divorce proceedings involving Ray Reardon, a successful architect, and his first wife. Shortly after their divorce, he agrees to go to a gallery opening to meet a woman with whom his obnoxious friend, Norman, sets him up.
While there, he embarrasses himself by bumping into a beautiful woman, making her spill wine on herself. She wastes no time verbally abusing him. A week later, he runs into the same woman, named Lena Mathers, at the supermarket. She apologizes for her behavior and the two go to dinner. They have sex the next day, marry shortly thereafter, and become parents.
That was sure quick.
Will it last?
It’s a movie. There has to be drama. There has to be intrigue. This gem has plenty of it.
Despite his happiness in the marriage, Ray becomes suspicious after catching Lena in several lies about her past. She turns out not to be who she says she is.
That is beside the point.
These two are such a beautiful, young couple, you hope it works out. It is the kind of beginning that so many of us wish we had. Lena is so good looking, it’s unbelievable.
Hope springs eternal.
Okay, another one.
Someone to Watch Over Me is a 1987 American romantic neo-noir thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Howard Franklin.
The film stars Tom Berenger as a police detective who has to protect a wealthy woman (Mimi Rogers), who is a key witness in a murder trial. The film’s soundtrack includes the George and Ira Gershwin song from which the film takes its title, recorded by Sting, and Vangelis‘ “Memories of Green”, originally from Scott’s Blade Runner (1982).
Absolutely beautiful music.
What we loved here was the attention to detail, the exceptional noir sets, the amazing apartment Mimi’s character lived in, and most important, how she and the police officer truly have an emotional connection.
The writing could have been better, but watch this one, at night, in the dark, as a guilty pleasure.
Time to transition.
Have you ever experienced love lost?
The epitome of a film that speaks to a powerful love lost and what could have been is the 1988 classic, simply titled, Summer Story.
A Summer Story is a British drama film released in 1988, directed by Piers Haggard, based on John Galsworthy’s 1916 short story “The Apple Tree“, with a script by Penelope Mortimer. It stars James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, and Susannah York.
Here is the storyline.
In 1904, a young gentleman visiting a rural area has an intense love affair with a village girl. Eighteen years later, he is passing that way again. Is she with him as well?
You need to watch this one. We won’t give too much away but if you have ever experienced the pain and deep sense of loss, for what could have been, you truly should watch this gem.
When two young people love one another as much as these two did, no matter the obstacles, they must get together.
Or else.
Trust us. You don’t want to experience the “or else”.
Like the next film.
Onegin is very painful to watch.
Onegin is a 1999 British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin‘s 1833 novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom. Onegin is Martha Fiennes‘ directorial debut and stars her brother Ralph Fiennes in the role of Yevgeny (Eugene) Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, Irene Worth as Princess Alina and Toby Stephens as Lensky.
Here is the storyline.
In early 19th century Russia, a bored St. Petersburg socialite named Onegin inherits his uncle’s estate in the country.
There, he meets a neighboring landowner and aspiring poet, Lensky, and a widowed mother and her two daughters. The poet is engaged to the elder daughter Olga. Her sister, Tatiana (Tanya), writes Onegin a passionate love letter but he turns her down because of her youth and inexperience.
Unbelievable.
Especially since he has noticed her, even previously following her movements.
The scene where the two leave the party and sit in the isolated cottage and Tatiana humbles herself and wants to find out if he loves her too, Onegin’s aloofness and arrogance is maddening.
He instead dances with her sister.
Onegin departs from his country estate.
Six years later, he returns to St Petersburg, he encounters Tanya, the woman whom he spurned, who is now a woman of refinement and married to a prince. Onegin immediately sees Tanya as desirable, and falls in love with her. He begs her forgiveness for his past behavior. Tanya refuses Onegin, explaining to him that he has missed his chance with her; she will be faithful to her husband.
He receives her rejection with despair.
We do as well.
Having said that, we completely agree with Tanya.
That last scene is a real tear jerker. He really blew it. They would have made such a beautiful couple. They would have had beautiful children.
He should have recognized love when it was right in front of his arrogant face.
A cautionary tale.
Our Southern relatives from the 1950s told us, love is for the young. When you are a teenager and fall in love, that’s love. That is why so many of them married one person and stayed married for life.
Later, relationships are about college educations, careers, money, a nice home, fame or assets. Know why that is not about love? Lose those things and see what happens to your relationship.
We have experienced that first hand.
Later in life, true love is hard to find.
That is why we cherish depictions of real love at the movies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Lover_(1993_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_to_Watch_Over_Me_(film)
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