In which your friendly neighbourhood fangirls, Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes, break out the tissues and dive deep into the movies that we love even though they love to ruin us. It’s SAD ROMANCE week!
Oh joyous day - it’s the one where Emily gets to legitimately talk about Timothee Chalamet!
Last week we discussed romantic comedies, movies that exist solely to make you feel warm and fuzzy and full of belief in the existence of true love, movies in which the guy always gets the girl (only very occasionally does a guy get a guy or a girl a girl), even if nothing that’s come before suggests that they could ever have a functional relationship - but if you want to hear us talk about that, go back and listen to episode 6.
This week, we’re moving on to sad romances, the ones that draw you into a beautiful love affair only to shatter it before your eyes, and with it, your soul.
It might be death that parts them, as in the 1990 classic that made every woman in the world believe she could pull off a pixie cut (spoiler: she couldn’t), Ghost. It might be the Nazis, as in one of the most misquoted films in history, Casablanca. Or it might be geography, and also the fact that it’s 1983 and you’re two (of the most beautiful) men (in the world), as in Call Me By Your Name, which stars a certain floofy-haired young actor. Whatever the case, they’re all beautiful romances, and they’re all doomed.
Why do we love these movies even though they tear us to shreds? Is a cathartic cry a good thing? Can we forgive Argo for erasing New Zealand from history? Gwyneth Paltrow: yay or nay? We address these and many more questions you never knew you had because you probably have a life and some genuinely fulfilling and worthwhile hobbies in this week’s episode of Off Script!
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