 Romance/Love: May 09, 2012 Issue [#5037] |
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This week: Long Engagements Edited by: Crys-not really here  
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My name is Crys-not really here and I'm this week's editor for the Romance/Love newsletter. This week's topic is long engagements. |
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Long Engagements
I'm at the age where many of my friends from high school are getting engaged or married. I'm still at the point in my life where I can't even imagine settling down. I have so much to do, so many places to see. I still have college and grad school loan debt to pay off. I may be 28 years old, but I have a lot of growing up to do.
A recent movie staring Jason Segal explores an engagement that lasts five years. Segal's character Tom proposes to Emily Blunt's character Violet just one year after they meet. Violet gets a job across the country and Tom leaves a job he loves to dutifully follow her to a place he hates. Not surprisingly, the couple discovers that they don't really know everything about each other. Tom has an identity crisis, Violet is tempted by another man. Violet advances in her job, while Tom goes from a high-end chef to making sandwiches. The wedding keeps getting put off until finally they realize that it's not going to happen.
The draw of this movie is that the premise is so realistic. Any of us could be Tom and Violet. I think about that any time I see a couple of young 20-somethings getting engaged. It's amazing to me when I see a marriage work between a couple who has known each other for a year. I have known plenty of people for over five years that I still don't think I know fully.
This thought brings me to the question that's at the heart of this movie: When is it the right time for a couple to get married? If we were to all wait until our lives were perfect and stable, would any of us ever get married? Should we instead find someone to work on our dreams with, and then go about doing it together? Personally, I feel like each of us should know ourselves fully before sharing ourselves with someone else for the rest of our lives. I guess that's why marriage isn't even on my radar right now. There's no way I would survive a five year engagement! |
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Thanks to everyone who wrote in about my last newsletter regarding romance in the movie Titanic! I have included some of your comments below. Enjoy!
I kinda feel the same way. I guess when you watch a movie for the first time, it's something new or exciting. Which everybody craves for like Titanic, it used to be a #1 hit in Hollywood(for it's grand appearance of two doomed lovers).
I didn't just think about those two big stars.
I also thought about everyone else, what they did in their last moments. The only part I thought was funny, was when the musicians were playing their instruments while everyone was falling off the ship.
It also gives you and whoever makes a ship to include lifeboats. Maybe a captian too, that pays attention to the current situation before having the entire ship flipped around :/ Which I am confused how that captian can mess up so badly? It's like on the first day you get your driving license and you crash into the white house. -Billy the kid 
Crys, you pose an interesting question - what can of love story can the real Titanic survivors tell? I wonder if there are any books out there that recount the survivor stories. -StephBee 
That's an amazing perspective, Crys. I remember when the movie came out, I wasn't much older than you were, but I distinctly recall groaning a few times whenever the love story crept back into focus. The scene that struck me the most is a brief cut of an elderly couple, holding each other in bed as water rushes across the floor beneath them. That image always defined the movie for me, and I've wished ever since that Jack and Rose were simply a vignette within a larger collection. There are a lot of movies that suffer from too narrow a scope, and as epic as it was and still is, Titanic suffers about as much as an epic can. I did see somewhere that Ballard is releasing a documentary on the National Geographic Channel, focusing on the destructive effects that exploration has had on the ship's remains. I think that's a better tragic romance - between us and what's left of such a beautiful, terrible piece of history.  -A.T.B: It'sWhatWeDo  |
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