Movies You Would Marry
Apr. 25th, 2020 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueIt is currently slang-fashionable among the internet commenters I follow to replace "I love x" (where x is some object or food or piece of media or whatever) with "I'd marry x." I also mostly hang around with film nerds. Hence I've seen several people put out favorites lists with titles that are variations of "movies I'd marry."
It got me thinking, if I were to take that at face value, that I would want to marry few to none of my favorite movies, because the things that I and most people appreciate in movies - conflict, revelation, personal transformation, heightened emotion - are not things I want on a daily basis from a domestic partner. On a screen, absolutely and repeatedly. But in my life? As my spouse?
Even if I try to think of low-conflict skillful light entertainment, like Singing in the Rain or the deliberately friendly To Wong Foo, I think I would feel smothered in a marriage.
Literally the only movie I've been able to come up with so far that I could handle being married to is The Muppet Movie (1979). I think it has room to accept all my emotions, and support me, and not push too hard.
It got me thinking, if I were to take that at face value, that I would want to marry few to none of my favorite movies, because the things that I and most people appreciate in movies - conflict, revelation, personal transformation, heightened emotion - are not things I want on a daily basis from a domestic partner. On a screen, absolutely and repeatedly. But in my life? As my spouse?
Even if I try to think of low-conflict skillful light entertainment, like Singing in the Rain or the deliberately friendly To Wong Foo, I think I would feel smothered in a marriage.
Literally the only movie I've been able to come up with so far that I could handle being married to is The Muppet Movie (1979). I think it has room to accept all my emotions, and support me, and not push too hard.
