![]() He is cheeky and funny, then caring and laidback. She is promiscuous and pragmatic, then frustrated and unavailable. The issues that undermine Dean and Cindy have always been present - their strengths are also their weaknesses, their charms are also irritations.Īt first glance, the film seems easier on Dean than Cindy. It also shows how resentments can build and eat away at a relationship. This leads to a couple of easy, cruel emotional edits, but is more impressive in how it foreshadows their problems - and even their own foreknowledge of them. Their scenes of dislocation - digi-shot, in intrusive fashion - are cross-cut with a celluloid-captured meet-cute and romance. Love means never having to say you’re sorry? Bollocks.Ī lack of understanding and forgiveness is part of what unmoors the marriage so convincingly portrayed by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. ![]() But there is a different type of cancer destroying the relationship - and the film is a tart antidote to that picture’s pervasive, poisonous catchphrase. This is no less valid a love story than, say, Love Story. Blue Valentine shows the repercussion of a quick-draw decision and that screen romance need not be candy-coated. And movies often thrive on reassuring lies. Promises can be made just as thoughtlessly as they are broken.
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