::ugly crying::

[grrltastic]

 Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet is on Netflix right now.

And man oh man fuck that movie so hard. It came out the summer I was 13; I'm pretty sure my friends and I lived and breathed it for months. I still can't watch through to the end of it because it makes me sob hysterically.

Also, watching it tonight (up to about 15 minutes from the end when I had to turn it off) made me super jealous. I forgot how mad I was when I first started to learn that love doesn't work in real life like it does in the movies. The way that all-consuming passion is really just crazy as fuck and also totally doesn't last at all is such a goddamn letdown. The fact that happily ever after is really just lackluster everyday life interspersed with little bouts of "Oh hey, I remember why I like you!" Dumb.

(I mean, it's fine. It's the way things are and it's fine, but it's a pretty far cry from the way culture said it would be.)

UGH. FEELINGS.

::flail::

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[pinesandmaples]

That long paragraph was so visceral for me. Like I want to argue with it, but I can't get words to match the feelings. UGH I AM FULL OF FEELS RIGHT NOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME, K?????

[grrltastic]

BAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHH. ADOLESCENT FLASHBACKS AUGGGGHHHHHH. :C

[waketosleep]

Well, fictional romance probably wouldn't be so popular if it wasn't escapist.

That movie is really pretty, also. But like the play, it goes downhill once Mercutio dies. ;)

[grrltastic]

I should have known something was up when I realized that Mercutio is played by Michael from Lost.