Blue Valentine - What's the Point of a Doomed Romance? | Video Essay

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“a love story is still a love story even when two people don’t end up together” that hit me so hard

There’s nothing like being in love and knowing it’s going to end. Whole heartedly Adventurous and heartbreaking at the same time

"To have it for a day is better than never finding it at all." Oh my heart.

the emotions in Blue Valentine was so raw and real its really hard to watch it again

a relationship becomes tiring when the people involved stop trying to be their best

Something I noticed that no one seems to talk about: when Dean has dinner with Cindy's parents, he talks about how his mother just decided to leave one day when he was 10. After that scene, Cindy's mother is absent from the rest of the movie. The movie never mentions Cindy's parents getting divorced... but the writing is on the wall. The dad is the only one in the house and the only one watching over the grandkid. Dean was the inspiration - or perhaps catalyst - for the parents to separate. The mother finally realized that it was possible for her to simply LEAVE her toxic relationship.

Dean was there when Cindy needed and CIndy left dean when he was in need

Cindy inadvertently recreated her parents bad relationship and Dean created the loss of his mother’s abandonment.

I watched this movie with my girlfriend (unknowingly about a month before we broke up) and I empathized with Dean so much throughout. And was completely looking through his perspective as the protagonist who is on the losing end of a relationship he tried to be in. When we finished, my ex left me absolutely shocked when she empathized with Cindy, who was stuck in a life she never wanted to be in and just wanted out of. It’s not that blue valentine ended our relationship, it had nothing to do with anything. But the contrast looking back about wanting to start a family and settle down, and her wanted to travel and never really being tied down is almost divine intervention levels of ironic hahaha incredible movie

Didn't realize there was so much to this film and it's characters until you talked about camera angles. Blue Valentine was and will always be the most heartbreaking film!

Thank for ruining my night, i forgot to question my existence today.

I saw somewhere that during their arguments, the director had Ryan Gosling try to keep Michelle Williams close to him, and he told her to try to get away from him, which represented how they felt about the relationship at the time

I was only able to watch this movie twice. It's such a painful movie, but honest. Love is one of the most difficult things to navigate and you never know where it will take you. Rise or ruin.

BlueValentine is kind of like a realistic version of LaLaLand without the song and dance. Haha.

This movie came out one year after I went through the breakup of a lifetime. It completely destroyed me, but also helped exorcise so much emotional angst and pain that I couldn't face otherwise. I'll always be grateful to Derek Cianfrance for this devastating piece of art. Wonderful breakdown as well, thank you for shedding new light on an old friend.

I always loved this movie, even though I knew it ended on a sad note. However, the romantic scenes were always the moments that stuck with me in this movie. Like the scene where Cindy and Dean play music and danced with each other, or when Dean told Cindy he wants them to be a family. It made me really wonder why do people have relationships if they will eventually fall apart. This video really hit the mark, relationships and love are a part of life and having had them is better than not having it at all.

This film is brilliant from beginning to end, there isn’t a single second that doesn’t feel complete human. the used of film vs digital and the way the past and present are framed is genius. this is one of the greatest films ever made.

No one does it better than Moises when it comes to dissecting cinema. What an eye for details you have, really a spectacular show of mastery of one's craft. This movie being one of my all time favourite, I just couldn't have asked for more 😍😍😍

Love is so short, forgetting is so long