Dear, that's not love

Marge 2021-11-12 08:01:15

After watching this film, I was a little sad, but I know that Cin has no love for Dean.
The protection at the most difficult time, the illusion made this marriage. At a wrong moment, Dean's love covered the marriage that Cin thought he could entrust to continue, but all the goodness at the beginning was diluted and even perished in the deepening understanding.
Their marriage did not have a solid foundation, and what is rare is Dean's deep affection. But love is ultimately the interaction of two people, and only one party's contribution can only be an empty shell.
Marriage is the tomb of love. It doesn't seem to be the subject of the movie, because they didn't have love at the beginning. A promise made out of gratitude will move people by this kind of warmth, but the impulse and turbulence after sacrificing one's life cannot conceal the inside of the empty shell. They have no love.
Cin is kind. At the beginning of the marriage, she expressed her gratitude to make herself fall in love with Dean, because Dean is a good person. However, love cannot be measured by good or bad, because there is no standard for love.
Dean loves Cin, regardless of whether there is a chance of pregnancy as a reason for the two to get married, he always loves her. But this kind of love is a little blind, because the communication and fusion of each other's hearts can achieve true love, but as a brash boy, he couldn't understand this in the end.
I want to say that only a complete person can achieve a beautiful love, and cin and dean are obviously lacking, even if those shiny qualities once moved us.
Previous film critics said that this film may shake viewers' beliefs in marriage and love. In my opinion, this film does not focus on expressing how love is resolved in the process of marriage, because the relationship between cin and dean is not love.
In the end, I still can't help feeling helpless and sad for Dean, but my dear, it's really not love.

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Blue Valentine quotes

  • Dean: Tell me a joke.

    Cindy: So there's a child molester and a little boy walking into the woods. The child molester and the little boy keep walking further and further. And it's getting darker and darker. And they're going deeper and deeper into the woods. And the child molester... The little boy looks at the child molester and he says, "Gee, mister! I'm getting scared." And the child molester looks down at him and says, "You think you're scared, kid? I gotta walk outta here alone."

    [Dean shakes his head]

    Cindy: You don't think that's funny?

    Dean: No.

    Cindy: I do.

  • Jerry: Cindy doesn't usually bring her boyfriends home for dinner. So, uh, I'm thinking this might be serious.

    Glenda: Don't listen to him.

    Dean: I hope so.

    Jerry: You hope so?

    Dean: Yes, sir. I mean, I'm pretty serious.