I love a good movie and I am a romantic at heart, so I wanted to share some of my favorite scenes that involve some aspect of love.
Beautiful Girls
This is a scene that deals with a love between an older man and a younger woman. Sort of a love that could never be. I just think that the realism and honesty that they both deal with the situation they are in is so endearing.
Lost in Translation
The first time I saw this scene I melted in my seat. These two characters have such a heartfelt love that you get to witness develop during the entire run of the film. But, they must both leave one another and go back to their lives. You don't feel sad at the end of the movie even though the two have to say good-bye. It is as though they were meant to love for a short while and teach each other how to live. One of my favorite movies.
When Harry Met Sally
When I asked my fiance to give me a romantic movie he likes he told me to add this one.
Casablanca
Here's a scene where pain is written all over the people involved. You can just feel the angst and the need they have for one another.
Stranger Than Fiction
Another one of my favorite movies for several reasons. This movie really touches on my philosophy about life and art. This particular scene made me weep. I know I'm a sappy girl--but, you are just set up the whole movie to fall in love with Harold Crick and you do!
Lately, I have been pondering my own obsession with getting butterflies in my stomach. I love when a movie does that to me. There are so many different aspects and types of love and it feels great to have them in one's life.
Let me know what you think of these movies, and please share some of your favorites. Or tell me about some that you don't like and why.
Also, if you're like me, or not, tell me why.
More on this topic later.
--Lauren
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4 comments:
Good movie choices! :) I forgot how much I enjoyed "Stranger Than Fiction." And I've never seen a couple of those...I'll have to make a point to see them. There's something special about getting that butterfly feeling. It seems like it gets harder to feel those butterflies the longer you love someone. For the same reason that it gets easier & easier to be yourself the longer you love/know someone.
Part of becoming ultimately comfortable around someone is losing that fear/excitement that comes with not really knowing how they're going to act if you do something spontaneous or what they're going to think of you if you say something personal. It's bittersweet & I think it's very common to miss those butterflies. I know I do at times. It's good to remember what I've gained rather than thinking about losing something. It also helps to watch romantic movies...especially if I can get him to watch them with me. ;) Thanks for sharing your movie choices.
Very insightful Katrina! I do agree that love changes the longer you are in it. I also believe that it gets better, that even though somethings disappear (or are less frequent) they are replaced with even better things.
For example, I bet you get a different kind of butterflies when you look at your cute baby boy and realize that you and your husband were the only two people in the world that could have made him possible. Now that's amazing and something to cherish. But, it is different than giggling with your girlfriends about the boy you have a crush on.
I do wonder if men have the same attachment to the butterfly feeling that women do. There have been more and more movies lately involving a man's struggle with loving a girl (or at least involving the man more in the story). Examples that pop into my head right away are High Fidelity, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset...I know there are more of them. Anyway, that's another topic that can be covered at a later time.
Thanks for the comment!
--Lauren
I agree that things that occur less frequently/disappear are replaced with better things. The excitement of being in love doesn't go away, it just takes a different form. And though I don't always feel the nervous butterflies that I sometimes miss, there is much joy in my life/in our love that I wouldn't give up for anything. That being said, it's fun to watch a movie that brings those butterfly feelings back & helps me remember what it felt like in the early stages of romance. :)
Commitment, intimacy, comfort...those are the things that would really be more exciting to me than butterflies right now. For me, butterflies are one part excitement, one part mystery and one part total anxiety! :)
-heidi
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