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Born in Sg, survived seven years of IJ, escaped to canada for the miraculous rebirth.. likes to say she found self there, But well when can we reach self actualization? now a waterloo student. 110% horse mad, was practically born on the back of a horse ( or rather wishes she was) horses are my favourite thing.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Like Crazy

I thought it would be some nauseating romance story with a lovesick couples who try to overcome all to fall in love

But im a sucker for indie type romantic flicks

Instead I was pleasantly surprised, i at first found them a bit annoying. Especially with stupid decisions made. But it is realistic, it is about young, naive, acting on impulsive and on the intense melancholy and longing you feel for someone. You often wonder, what would it be like just to be with that person? Why not just give it a chance? a chance at happiness? what if, this person was the ONE for you.

Their relationship is reduced to transatlantic flight, missed calls, and two people trying to desperately cling on to something that maybe just isn't real. You spend more time trying to chase down something that you want so badly, you ache and long for it without really really experiencing it. Maybe just loving the idea of it, the reality of it, the smudges you felt of it. The bit and pieces of the time you spent together.  At the end of the day.... is it worth it?

Its sad how romance can be whittled down to nothing more than circumstances, timing and bad decisions. How international customs and immigration can keep two apart. But it is honest, relatable and it does start slow at first, but does build up toward the end.

At the end of the day, maybe the moral of the story is to Not Try to Romanticize And Continue a Long Distance Relationship,NO MATTER how torn up you feel about it. If it means the two of you will never be on the same continent permantly.

The final scene is of the two in the shower, with flashbacks of ther on-off romance through the ( three years) covered in the film. It isn't a clobbered, moment of ecstatic happines with a sloppy kiss. Actualy strangely enough, there is no sex scene between the actual couple, but instead sex scenes with other suitors. What is this implying about the couple? that their romance never really had any concrete physicality to it, and was more of an abstract dream, with the two falling more for the idea of being together. The end had me wandering, yes the two eventually ended up together, but should they have? or were they merely caught up in chasing downa dream? and once you've got that dream, it just slips through your fingers and you wonder, Was it really worth it?  Maybe you just fell in love with the idea of being in love.