Saw Blue Valentine Saturday night, and let's just say I cried, a lot.
Ok let's not just say that.
I'm not normally one to weep at films, but I found this story unbelievably sweet and heart breaking at the same time.
It's a love story interspliced with the story of that love's own demise. So you can imagine the emotional tug-of-war when just as we experience the sweet tears of their pure and young love, we also experience the tears of sadness as their marriage ends.
Not because of anything specific, they've just grown apart. They don't talk any more. They want different things and resentment has set in.
Now by revealing the basic story line I must stress that I'm by no means ruining the movie for anyone who has not seen it yet. The characters are so engaging even at their most modest and the actors make them so damned cute, you can't help but want them to get together in real life to right the wrong of this story. (I have to admit I always find Ryan Gosling especially cute and fall in love with his characters even when their crack-addicted teachers, as my boyfriend pointed out, he often plays the same role of the well-intentioned guy who just can't get it right, and that's just endearing I guess.)
Anyway, it's a beautifully sad story that really makes you think about love and how if two people who seemed so smitten, who chose to love each other even when circumstance made it difficult, could so passively fall out of love.
I could say much more , but I'll leave you with this question.
If the love dissolves, does that mean it was the wrong person?
Blue Valentine is definitely a flick to check out.
And is playing at Angelika right now
or another indie theater near you.
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