rinue | Movies You Would Marry

It 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.