Monday, September 23, 2013

Fake Love

        Chuck Klosterman in his article called "This is Emo" talks about the concept of fake love and how people see this in the media like movies. This concept of fake love seen in movies makes people have high expectations of how love works and they get hurt in the real world because they find out that love isn't like how it is shown in movies. Love in the real world isn't perfect because there is always some type of problem and it takes serious commitment. In the movie Titanic the characters by the name of Jack and Rose have a romantic relationship in the movie. Being on the ship they have fancy dinners and dances. They don't really have a first date considering the fact that they are on a ship but they do have sex early on in getting to know each other. They have a perfect relationship with one another even though they have to hide it from Rose's fiancé. These expectations of romance are setting people up for disappointment because in real life being in a relationship isn't going to consist of going to fancy dinners and dances all the time. These expectations are also setting people up for disappointment because in real life being in a relationship doesn't usually consist of having sex right away when you meet someone. The last reason these expectations are setting people up for disappointment would be that in real life relationships aren't perfect because there are usually problems with every relationship.

1 comment:

  1. why can't everyone have a relationship like Jack and Rose? (well, minus the part where Jack dies a week into the relationship.) IT'S SO DEPRESSING!

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