About Love from The Mirror has two faces

I happened to see this movie "The Mirror has two faces" because I wanted to kill some time before I got to catch the T20 action between Chennai and Punjab. But to my surprise, I liked this movie and ended up watching it fully. There is one particular scene where Barbara lectures to a hall full of students about love , marriage etc. I liked the lines in that part very very much. It is so so true. I guess everyone would agree with what she said , (except for Jeff who actually doesnt hear the last part of her lecture ;))

Here is the excerpt

A wedding is the final scene of the fairy tale, they never tell you what happens after. They never tell you that Cinderella drove the Prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle and that she missed her day job.
They don't say what happens after because there is no after. The be-all and end-all of romantic love was ...

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True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie.
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Experts, scholars and my Aunt Esther are united in one belief: True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie. A myth. A soulless manipulation. And speaking of manipulation... It's like going to the movies and seeing the lovers kiss... The music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date kisses me, and I don't hear strings, I dump him. The question is, why do we buy it? Because, myth or manipulation, we all want to fall in love. Why? Because it makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon, but that doesnt diminish its value because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.

I read, "When we fall in love, we hear Puccini in our heads." I love that. His music expresses our need for passion and romantic love. We listen to La Boheme or Turandot, or read Wuthering Heights, or watch Casablanca, and a little of that love lives in us too. So the final question is: Why do people want to fall in love, when it can have such a short run and be so painful?

-Propogation of the species?
-We need to connect with somebody?
-Are we culturally preconditioned?

Good, but too intellectual for me. I think it's because, as some of you may already know... While it does last, it feels freaking great!


Well thought of sharing it because I liked it so so much. So here it is.

Ciao.