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and entertaining way to tell you that
love is crazy… by the way, winner of
a Best Actress Oscar, Jennifer Law-
rence.
Columbia Pictures and Director Paul
Thomas Anderson brought us
Punch-
Drunk Love
(2002), with Adam
Sandler and Emily Watson whom let
us know that everybody have some-
one to love, without looking at him as
the frustrated-to-the-point-of-mania-
who-falls-madly type of guy. Sandler’s
best acting ever.
Don’t you ever have memories of
a loved one that you want to erase
forever, because it’s too painful, since
you’re not together anymore? That’s
what Director Michel Gondry shows us
in
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind
(2004). Joel (Jim Carrey) and
Clementine (Kate Winslet) are going
to hide from oblivion in his mind as he
tries to erase every chapter of their
lives as a couple, at a clinic capable
to do that. After all that, destiny puts
them together again. This one leaves
us with a question of: should be wor-
thy to love and suffer or just go back
and start from zero? The name of the
movie comes from the poem Eloisa to
Abelard by Alexander Pope where for-
getfulness became her only comfort:
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish
resign’d”
Pride and Prejudice
(2005), based
on Jaen Austen’s 1813 novel of the
same name, with Keira Knightley and
Matthew Macfadyen as main players
on this epic movie that narrates the life
of five sisters, whose parents are look-
ing to marriage to the best bachelor,
in which our two lovebirds shows us
the dislike for each other at first, what
then escalates to be love. Masterful
and down to earth movie showing that
sometimes is not love at first sight.
These are just a mere taste, a handful
of extraordinary, chaotic, unbelievable,
unexpected love stories that tells you,
although in this decade science fiction
and special effects are kings, we can
top, and sometimes, even surpass
the classics of all time. These movies,
along with a lot more out there, are
the proof that romance hasn’t died just
yet, and if I’m wrong, let me know...
don’t worry, I’ll wait.
JULIO FROMETA