Question:“On romance films”
On romance films
A romance does not teach love. It only makes you believe again for two hours. Sometimes those two hours change a season.
Three descend. If you want to watch it with someone, that someone is the answer. If you want to watch it alone, that is an answer too.
- Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)It shows how a love of one day becomes a lifetime.
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)Two people walk and talk through one night in Vienna, and you cannot look away.
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)Not a fingertip touches, and it says everything about love.
Penelope waited twenty years, and knew her husband by the secret of the bed.