Let the best romantic movies bring a breath of fresh air in your life!
Someone once said, and he was sincere I am sure, that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. But there’s nothing that can match the joy that a skillful director can conjure out of everyday situations, using a pair of beating hearts. Love as an emotion has been a favorite with artists over the ages. And movies, as the most complete form of art in the modern age, have been doing a fine job at churning out cinema that would make a romantic out of a cynic.
A boy meets a girl, the boy woos the girl, and they fall in love. Obstacles arise, only to melt away in the face of the undying passion of the lovers, and they reunite. As you watch romantic movies made over the years, you realize that this basic premise underlies all the movies, both great and not so great. Yet watch the diverse emotions that they elicit from the viewers. From the sublime to the ephemeral, love has seen many faces, and romantic films have captured every conceivable shade of this venerable emotion in movies after movies.
Any romantic movies list would be incomplete at best, and subjective at its worst. Love, being such a personal emotion, necessarily involves a degree of subjectivity in selection. Yet few would argue as you watch Jack Nicholson’s Melvin Udall’s romantic quip in ‘As Good As It Gets’ that “ You make me wanna be a better man,”. Certainly, it can make us fall in love all over again. Movies such as Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Dr. Zhivago, Pretty Woman, Titanic, Before Sunrise, The English Patient, and many more, have shown us the depth of passion of the couple and their undying zeal to be together in an unprecedented manner.
Whether it be the beauty-beast dichotomy of Edward Scissorhands, or the ghostly love of Demi Moore set against an ‘Unchained Melody’, or the guys’ favorite “You complete me” quip from Jerry McGuire, the best romantic movies have all managed to make us fall in love with them, and watch them again and again.
All of these had strong characters which we could easily identify and fall in love with. Their appeal lies in the fact that common people like you & me, could put ourselves in their shoes, and see the world from their eyes. These movies also had a great storyline that had the capacity to hook the viewers from the first scene. Little special effects, no CGI; just a guy and a girl (including the other permutations) in love with each other! And guys, Titanic wasn’t a disaster movie!
As you watch the best of such movies, you realize, in the best of self reflexive traditions, romantic movies have also shaped our real lives. After all, “it doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other,” is both the sign of the times as well as the harbinger of our postmodernist selves.
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