Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Such a good thing that I didn’t want to let it go. It wasn’t a fear of Harvard that was holding me back, but an unwillingness to give up my options elsewhere. Deciding among the four prongs of my future suddenly seemed less romantic...
Roses is Taylor's new affirmation, a celestial reverie on romantic love. Most of it is set to Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, a famous orchestral set piece that generations of concertgoers associate with the mythical warrior hero whose undoing came not in battle but in love. No matter. Taylor, though...
Disgusting, snarls his revolutionist cellmate Valentin (Raul Julia), who is being tortured to betray his beliefs and his underground comrades. But perhaps he protests too much. For he encourages Luis to keep spinning out his scenario (which is visualized in wickedly parodistic flashbacks). Ultimately Valentin confesses that his revolutionary ardor...
One should be warned ahead of time that, although the film starts in a romantic and dreamy setting, it soon becomes (intentionally) repulsive, not to mention unbelievably depressing. As the outside world comes in, the beautiful lives of Jack and Rose are completely ruined.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose isn’t just another teenager/drugs/sex flick (even though Jena Malone is in it, and she seems to be floating farther and farther away from little star-gazing Ellie of Contact). It surely isn’t the usual romantic movie (so don?...