9/30/2018 1 Comment blue valentine (2010)Director: Derek Cianfrance
Blue Valentine is about a married couple Dean and Cindy's relationship. They have a troublesome marriage and eventually fall apart. Nothing major that people would normally think of happened, like cheating or abusing. But in my opinion, this is also the reason why this movie is so depressing--sometimes, in real life, it won't be anything dramatic like a soupy tv show. It just happens and people who are stuck in the relationship won't see the reasons. I decided to watch Blue Valentine because I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and watch an easy, relaxing, romantic movie. All of the posters seemed so sweet and happy, that they deceived me. This movie was a wrong choice. Everything about this movie was the exact opposite of "an easy, relaxing, romantic movie". The entire movie I was waiting for a turning point for Dean and Cindy's relationship to get better and I guess it just slides down and down, all the way till the end. This movie definitely proved what "marriage is the tomb of love" means. They were so in love when they first got together, and how they first started their family. Dean is a good man, although he sucked at communicating and fixing the problem, he loves Frankie who is not his daughter, he tries to support the family financially and emotionally. He is extremely insecure and he won't see it. He twists everything Cindy says into something negative about himself that Cindy doesn't mean, and he blames her, too. He is a romantic and idealistic person and when things didn't go what he expects to be, he runs away and numbs himself that he is satisfy about his life. When they are at the hotel, Cindy asks him don't you wanna do something else, instead of getting up early every day and paint other's houses. And he replies "it is a dream.", he wanted this. Cindy, on the other hand, grew up in an environment where her dad dominants everything. She didn't want Dean to be unconfident about himself while she hopes better in him. She tries to talk to him but at the meantime, she's scared of upsetting Dean. And when she figures that she can't change Dean, she breaks. But what is the real problem between Dean and Cindy? Maybe it shouldn't start like this, when Cindy got pregnant with another man's baby; maybe she always feels guilty for dragging him into her fault and he always feels not good enough for her; maybe it's the burden of reality that they have to support the family; maybe they are just meant to be apart, even though they were once, or are still in love. One thing I find interesting about, is that there were a lot of close-ups on Dean and Cindy's faces while they are having conversations. In the scene where they were in the car driving to the hotel, Cindy was talking about how she met Bobby at the liquor store and they started arguing. There was barely any shots of them being in one picture, while most of other conversations in movies do, they frame two to show one's reaction when the other one is talking. I feel the lack of them two in one frame creates an unsure and uneasy feeling, because I couldn't see Dean's reaction and I don't know if he's gonna explode soon--which somehow works pretty good for the scenes. (It is true that I like dark stuff, but not this. I am so sad. ;( oh, and a dog died in the movie, even sadder now) Rating: 7/10
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