The presentations of the “Perfect Romance” were so diverse and each so unique that I couldn’t help but think about how that reflects everyone’s different and individual takes on Romance. It also made me realize that I am not a romantic. While I think things like apparent deaths, happy endings, transformation, and revelation are all elements of a good story and stories that I will openly admit to enjoying, they just don’t seem real life enough for me. I hear the stories of my friends friends who had these long winded stories of how they met and all the glorious wonderful things that happened in their relationship. Honestly I think its all a little ludicrous. I like simple and honest. I think romantic comedies are starting to stretch themselves a little too far, just be true to what you are, a movie about to people that aren't supposed to be together or haven't happened upon their random meeting in some picture perfect setting. They get together they endure some form of strife, they endure and they overcome and they live happily ever after. I love it, be simple, be expected thats completely fine with me, thats where I find “romantic comedy” a bit of an oxymoron. What about romance is supposed to be comedy?
When I think romantic in terms of a genre or style I can not help but have my brain venture to the Romanticism movement in art at the end of the Eighteenth century. The Romantic artists were emotional, exploring the emotions of horror, terror, awe and trepidation. These to me are what romantic connotes. And this is a far cry from the witty, ironic, endearing, and soothing movies that we have deemed romantic comedies. The romanticism movement also liberated the individual, after the many revolutions that Europe endured, art needed to show a new mindset. This notion of the individual is also not a component of our romantic movies, in order to have a relationship and some semblance of a good movie you need at a bare minimum three people involved. The two lovers and one other person who creates the obstacles the lovers must overcome in order to reach their happy ending.
This is where I came up with the realistic romantic, I would like to think that all the romantic ideals society has created are not myths and that they do happen, but I just can’t convince myself to be in full support of that mid set. Romance is far too complex to be that naive, but with its complexity there is a much larger margin for individual specification, and in the end what works for you is all that really matters.
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