Romanticized Tragedy

….as my heart fell and shattered on the ground when she said “I just woke up one day and I knew…what I was never sure of with you”, I bravely held back my tears and smiled at my friends beside me. BUT I knew, I was so utterly screwed.

500 days of summer, the movie I love and hate at the same time because of its unwavering honesty at everything I deemed as romantic but more importantly real. That there is a perfect one and the moment I find her she would feel the same way. The movie plays on everything we feel a relationship should be and will be(and then destroys it). The artistic architect who lost all inspiration and works as a writer in a gift card company till this beautiful assistant in the office who would not let society define her enters into his life and suddenly the world becomes a much brighter place.

We are made to feel hope that is brought by this sophisticated, perfect smiling girl named Summer. Little did we know; that all we feel good about will go up in smoke. However the heart breaking moment produced is as well a romantic feeling, in a sense it’s the most relatable tragedy. The investment of love that is not reciprocated, it is built up by society as the worst possible outcome of a romantic relationship; for no reason what-so-ever, the love of your life wakes up and decides she/he doesn’t love you anymore. As easily as people fall in love, they fall out of it. PERFECT WESTERNIZED TRAGEDY!!!

This scene in particular(first picture), where Tom Hansen and Summer Finn are in the park on this special bench over-looking the “romantic” scenery of an LA skyline (funny how a bench in the park could seem so precious). They confront each other on what went wrong and how Summer (who couldn’t believe in true love) is now getting married to another guy. She says to him that he was right to believe in true love but just not about her. I went into a spiral of abysmal break down at this point that my romanticized idea of togetherness still exist but is utterly mistaken. This must be a westernized idea of love at some point because we seldom actually see other cultures being wrong about who they love (not when your partner is chosen for you) hence they learn to love their partners (or stick with them anyway) whoever they may be. And so this heartbreaking tragedy to us(or just me) may not invoke too much emotion to a person who is not subjected to westernized media.

This shout-out goes out to Kris Humprey and his 72 days of Kardashian!! J