🎬 #204 Caught Up In Romance.
This weekend is Valentine’s weekend, so I thought it appropriate to make a suggestion of a film in that arena. This week’s film captures that buoyed up feeling that new love can fill you with, like you’re on a wild rollercoaster - not knowing how things will turn out but you’re just enjoying the ride.
Please enjoy
Bry
FILM: TRUE ROMANCE
1993 Dir Tony Scott
1 hr 59 mins
True Romance’s spirit is best summed up in its score by Hans Zimmer. Heavily inspired by the music used in Bad Lands, another film involving young lovers on the run. You can hear the similarities below.
But it’s the wonder and bright playful energy of the melody that tells you all you need to know. It captures that feeling of being enraptured by something, where your everyday reality is suddenly transformed by the appearance of this one person who you, suddenly, can’t seem to do without. The adrenal, hormonal rampage that love floods your system with depicted in the kinetic crime plot of a couple being pursued for the bag of cocaine they’ve accidentally stolen. Told in that heightened, truly romantic - even wistful Scott way - drawn from with the sensibilities of a distinctly Tarantino script.
All the while, it’s the unlikely pairs pure devotion to one another that connects us to them, even though the violence that lunges at them threatens to tear them apart. It makes you wish, in some way, for what is a very human need, someone to be there with you - through the ups and downs and to be truly and almost naively devoted to each other. Even in a slow motion gun fight that kicks up down into the air - fluttering, bloody and beautiful.
