Love is such a small word that holds such a strong meaning. Many people in their lives, at some point, contemplate about love, dream about it, and even lose sleep over it. Why is it that so many people imagine what love is? This one word, with many meanings, is so problematic to explain and yet it is impossible to live without. The movies in the romance section of this course, each depict a type of love many of us might go through. The first two films, Water for Elephants and How Do You Know, explore the concept of finding love. Whereas, the film Groundhog Day emphasizes the notion one has to become a loving person before one can love. Lastly, The Painted Veil and Stuck Between Stations explores the idea of creating love and seeing goodness in one another. Therefore, all of these films have a specific structure leading us to the notion that love seems to be the center of all things, both in giving and receiving, and can ultimately have many different meanings.
To begin, the film Water for Elephants demonstrates how love can be the source of happiness and even sorrow. It seems at t...
When we think about the force that holds the world together and what makes humans different from animals, one answer comes to our minds - that humans can love. Love is a state of mind that cannot be defined easily but can be experienced by everyone. Love is very complicated. In fact it is so complicated that a person in love may be misunderstood to be acting in an extremely foolish manner by other people. The complexity of love is displayed in Rostand’s masterpiece drama Cyrano de Bergerac. This is accomplished by two characters that love the same woman and in the course neither one achieves love in utter perfection.
Both author’s illustrate well, that a lack of love can have a profound effect on the behavior of a person. Whether a person has never experienced love by fortune or by design, the initial introduction of love into
Although the issues between two genders become serious and difficult to solve with, there still exists love between the two genders. Love is a constant topic among the people. Besides, Love is fantastic, unpredictable, and a main emotional connection in two human beings. There are several couple relationships in two movies. Some of them is searching for freedom of life. Some of them need to concern the ethics of society. No matter how the love has being created, the love is natural moments for human being to express their desires and thoughts.
What is love? Love could be considered a philosophical field, due to its complexity. The desire to be loved is universal, affection can be displayed in various forms; some shower with beautiful lavish gifts while others choose a more humble romantic approach. Irrespective of the approach the desire to love and be loved is an essential component of being human and is often a driving force in an individual’s actions. In the movie Forrest Gump, love is the factor that motivates the majority of the characters. While being a very simple character; Forrest’s actions, much like Frankenstein’s monster, are driven by love and the need to explore the world around him. When Forrest fulfills his role as a...
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds” (“William”). Like a newborn creature, love looks around and evaluates, planning its next move. Match the two lovers together so they can spend an eternity together; love’s only goal. Before love can match the two people together, it must evaluate the situation around it. Do they have the right chemistry? Well, if a person wants a family and the other doesn’t, then no. If one likes to camp and so does the other, then yes. There is only important question love must answer; does it change when times do? Some would say of course because everything changes as time passes. Others may say no due to the raw emotion that derives from love. Love comes from the heart and soul deep down inside oneself. No matter if in the 18th century or the 24th, love does not change.
Love is a common theme not only in the entertainment industry, but as well as in life. Love sells, and people in the movie industries understand this and gain from the profit. Movies often portray love between two people who are both beautiful, and not always the best person they can be on the inside. In Disney’s The Beauty and the Beast and Dreamworks’ Shrek not only do they have two people fall in love, but also they show how love is blind.
Love is a concept that has puzzled humanity for centuries. This attachment of one human being to another, not seen as intensely in other organisms, is something people just cannot wrap their heads around easily. So, in an effort to understand, people write their thoughts down. Stories of love, theories of love, memories of love; they all help us come closer to better knowing this emotional bond. One writer in particular, Sei Shōnagon, explains two types of lovers in her essay "A Lover’s Departure": the good and the bad.
What is love? It is an abstract concept, a feeling, a sensibility. Perhaps it is impossible to explain without defining it through observable examples. In film, this is often the way in which the concept of love is explored: definition is established through the words, the looks, and the touches of couples who are engaged in love relationships that are identified as such by a narrative. However, such definitions are bound within the narrative spaces in which they are established; they do not convey a general understanding of what love is. In order to develop a more general definition of the concept, a film must illustrate and discuss it in a manner that transcends narrative boundaries. A sequence in Godard’s Alphaville does this very successfully. Various formal techniques, particularly in the sound track, are employed to remove this sequence from the narrative flow, and the discussion of love that takes place in this part of the film occupies a space that is shared between the characters, filmmaker, and viewer. The context of this discussion is such that the definition of love is granted a generic currency. The sequence serves as an interlude in the diegesis of the film in which the filmmaker attempts to explore and express a universal truth.
Love, such an rapturous feeling we endure. When the time is right love always find its way to creep right up under us changing our life as we know it. In Diane Ackerman essay she struggles with finding the true meaning of love but goes through numerous distinctive characteristics. Although love is explained in different ways, Based on Ms.Ackerman “ Love seems rare nonetheless.” She portrays love as something with tremendous worth for it to be rare. An aspect of love is beautiful because it encourages serenity, grit, and is unique.
Although characters and people in real life “fall in love”, they really only scratch the surface of what love truly is. Love at first sight remains a popular trope in fiction and it ultimately portrays love as physical attraction rather than time and care; love is accepting people’s flaws and trying to help them. In the end, people must let go of the simplicity of infatuation and learn to love for more than
Although every love story is an emotional rollercoaster with similar emotions, these feelings are not easy to understand by those who are not directly involved. For example, happiness originates from different sources for every person and as a result is perceived uniquely. Also, every person is aware of how strong the desire for happiness is in is perception and what is willing to do to obtain it. Similarly, the pain is felt and lived differently by every person, and the depth of that pain cannot be expressed in fixed parameters even if it originates from a common cause. Moreover, last but not least restlessness is a feeling that takes over any person who tries to abandon an emotional rollercoaster that has come to an end.
Today, romance is one of the most popular genres to watch on television. Unlike most, romance is a genre where the plot revolves around the love between two main characters as they experience the highs and lows of love. “Common themes that revolve around romantic movies are kissing, love at first sight, tragic love, destructive love, and sentimental love” (Taylor). These themes appear in many historical films and the pattern still continues in modern films as well. Watching romantic movies has a giant negative influence on the viewer's analysis of what love and relationships should really be like. These films give the wrong impression of reality when it comes to dating, marriage, having children, and even how to manage a relationship in the first place. Even though romantic movies are commonly watched, there are many effects on personal real-life relationships after watching these types of films.
Composed for all who are curious of love and want to further their understandings of love. The symposium tells a story about what love truly is, and how love exactly works, along with the nature, purpose, and idea of love. The book is constructed by a sequence of speeches given by a variety of men who all play an important role at the symposium.
Love is a word that’s been both miss-used and over-used all at once. Romantic movies change our definition of and have a big impact on this definition greatly. There have been many movies and novels made over love, but never like this. “The Notebook” is a love story about unconditional love that two people have for each other. This emotionally, heart touching story will have your eyes blood-shot and burning from you not wanting to blink your eyes. This tremendously wonderful love story will have you not wanting to even miss a millisecond of this heart throbbing film. With many plot twists and many scenes that will have you falling off of your seat and you not having any nails by the end of the movie, this is the movie for you. This emotionally rich film is full of action, laughter, and romance, which is the perfect trio combination. This movie shows us how love can bind us together forever. This film went above and