What can you do for love? Can you change your bad habits and turn back on the route to righteousness? Can you repent for your sins and save a life that was doomed to be lost? Can you give a taste of life for those who have lost it kept in the bubble of protection? When the cruelest of hearts are melted by the purest of lives and set to fight demons, this is when magic arrives. Remember when the Beast met Bella and transformed back to the Prince? Now, this is a different story; this time a conman meets terminally sick girl and falls in love. An equally enchanting fairy journey of loss and atonement, quite underrated, Winter's Tale.
A woman without a man can be a dangerous thing. And it's true for every age: a teenager dreaming about a first boyfriend, a young woman with buzzing sexual appetite, a mature experienced one longing for her past and appreciating that she is still active, attractive, and hungry. Once a man enters this all-female environment, true desires are difficult to be kept hidden. What if an enemy soldier was found by a schoolgirl and kept a hostage in a school run by women for girls? Can you pretend love just to survive? Can you form a true bond with literally everybody just because there's no other man home? And what women, whose feelings have been rejected, are capable of? Two film adaptations of one novel almost fifty years apart, proving that emotions do not fade in time, one from 1971 another from 2017. The Beguiled.
There are families which cultivate the love and passion for a vocation. Families of lawyers, doctors, actors, artists. Growing up in such a family always erases the lines between private and public life. You don't know if you're at work or if work absorbed your life, love, sex and the upbringing of your children to the extent of madness. You buy a little guitar for a football fan, you plan your children's education years in advance even though they barely can read and write, you take Cartoon Network obsessed youngsters to art galleries, and you disapprove other lifestyles, limiting any potential choices. Imagine a family which was so deep in its ways that it didn't notice the immediate danger and took fascination for a mortal threat. Medically disturbing, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Enjoy.
Finding the right partner is hard. Matching characters and mutual interests are not always the basis for a love-affair. There are a lot of minute differences and variables which make forming a lasting relationship almost an impossibility, even if we pretend that we have something in common. But what if being single was subjected to punishment? What if the ideology of a couple was preferable and the single life doomed to discrimination and eternal seclusion? What if there were places where kiss, sex and falling in love were forbidden? Which camp would be the right place for you? A brilliant film showing us how ridiculous we are in the pursuit of socially accepted happiness. Is the dystopian scenario really that far from reality? The Lobster.
One night stand. Happens to so many. In some cases, it ends up in an unwanted pregnancy. In others, the outcome is a tricky venereal disease. Sometimes it leads to a romance. Occasionally it's the trigger for a long-lasting relationship. In the majority of cases, it's something you quickly forget like a blackout party, boring birthday celebration or a drunk evening at home. In 1890 such one night stand could lead to a way different outcome, especially if it connected people from different social classes. Enjoy.




