You and me.
I just watched Blue Valentine, and I honestly wasn’t prepared for the assault of emotions that would hit me constantly throughout the movie. The honest-to-goodness reason for me even picking it to watch was the Gosling factor, but in the end it really was so much more than that. I think it was the raw, intense acting and directing that really made the story so real and powerful. A punch you in the gut kinda powerful.
I wasn’t prepared for the ending – some part of me thought there would be a way for them to salvage it. And desperately hoped for it. But it was destined for the rocks I guess.
I hated the juxtaposition of young love with married love. Hated it. It made me want to cry and so disillusioned with the institution of marriage. I know, it’s so silly of me. But this thing called marriage sometimes seem to hurt a lot more than it brings happiness.
I hated how happy they were before and how exciting everything was. I hated how dull it became – how she felt like he wasn’t bringing anything to the table, how she didn’t want to be made love to. How she had willingly accepted who he was before – but that was just an illusion begging to be shattered, and shatter it did in the face of marriage. Where love becomes dull and repetitive.
I know, I’m just being idiotic and getting way too immersed in it all. But y’know, I just felt like it was a real honest outlook on life, and how idealistic we are when we are young. I could identify with so many things – and at the end of the day, THAT was what scared and intrigued me.
At the end of the movie, Dean tells Frankie to go back to her mother. And he asks her, you wanna race? And he lets her race on her own. And she bursts out crying when Cindy scoops her up and she realizes it. That broke my heart real bad. It was like the official end because he actually walked out on Frankie too. The one hope in the movie.
Ugh. My emotions are too mixed up right now to actually write about it proper. The second most painful scene was probably the almost-abortion one.
And my favourite scene was when you and me played and they were in the future hotel, actually happy. And the tap dance when they were younger. And when you and me made a reappearance in the past (how crazy does that sound) after he met her parents and they were alone.
Nobody baby but you and me.
At the end of the day, it’s just a love song.
