Film Blue Valentine

[miscbrahh]

Anyone seen this movie? Thought it would appropriate for this forum.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blue_valentine/

From RT: "Dean (Ryan Gosling) meets Cindy (Michelle Williams) when they're in their late teens; he's working for a moving company, she's a college student visiting her elderly grandmother at a home for the elderly. Cindy is dating Bobby (Mike Vogel), her boyfriend from high school, but as she gets to know Dean better, a mutual attraction grows between them. Years later, Dean and Cindy are married and have a daughter, Frankie (Faith Wladyka), but they're clearly not as happy as they once were; Dean loves his daughter but feels distant from his wife, they have to look after an elderly relative (John Doman), and when Cindy bumps into Bobby while running errands, it's clear he still holds a grudge against her. Dean and Cindy go away for a weekend together at a hotel, but it doesn't take long for them to realize that the magic isn't coming back."


I can't see myself getting married or having kids, so it really spoke volumes to me. And my parents are separated so I guess that has something to do with it

 

[Pagey]

Oh Ryan Gosling, it has to be good

I'm moving this over to Film & Telivision miscbrahh, you'll strike up more conversation there

 

[robotkittens]

Oh, Christ.

Blue Valentine broke my heart. It was hard to watch a relationship grow and then crumble. I kept hoping that things would turn around and magically become fixed (even though I knew the movie would bare no such results), but as it turns out... real life isn't so magical. My parents are happily married, though I have had friends with parents with deteriorating or full on deteriorated relationships (never met those parents), so I never really got the chance to see failing/failed relationships. Blue Valentine gave me that chance and I wish it hadn't, because now I am entirely skeptical of a lot of things... although that may also be because I'm going through a recently failing relationship myself.

IM NOT SURE WHERE IM GOING WITH THIS BUT FUCK.

 

[ricardo08]

It's been a while since I saw it but I remember thinking it was a really realistic representation of how a relationship is born and dies and the collateral damage done in the process. Not your average romance film but one I think most people would relate to, a lot more than the 'a walk to remember' type alternatives, anyway.

 

[kc2729]

This movie just killed me. It was so hopeless and heartbreaking. Michelle Williams always gets me in these kind of roles, and Ryan Gosling is always amazing. I thought it was a realistic view of a marriage falling apart, when you want to make it work but its too far gone. Good movie.

 

[Maya]

It's been a while since I saw it but I remember thinking it was a really realistic representation of how a relationship is born and dies and the collateral damage done in the process. Not your average romance film but one I think most people would relate to, a lot more than the 'a walk to remember' type alternatives, anyway.

Yep a lot of people can definitely relate to.. Ryan gosling is a really good actor and I think that this movie and drive are two of his best ones