There are different ways to portray a love-so-strong-it-could-withstand-the-storm sort-of type of stories. You could use the element of time to prove your point that love can stand the test of time, or distance maybe for which makes the heart grow fonder…or the royalties—prince and princesses falling in love with commoners. You could also use ghosts which haunts their loved ones due to their unfinished business and it leaves you guessing if that ghost would invade another human body so that they could still be together (or it was just me who guessed that way), or if the other love one would just die so that they could be together in heaven. Angels have also come down from heaven to fall in love. Speaking of mystical creatures, there are vampires falling in love with human, human falling in love with werewolves, or werewolves falling in love with vampires…and vice versa—which goes to say that love has no boundaries…anyone could love anyone…that love could break the rules—even the rules of the world we’re not even sure exists—like the Neverland, maybe. Furthermore, love stories could already exist or be based in the typical (sometimes monotonous, for some boring) day-to-day and realistic routines in life. Take these for example:
ü Best friends end up falling for each other. Like, you end up falling in love with your best friend and your best friend falls for someone else, but in the end of the story you still end up with each other. Who the hell knows how that turned out to be?!—well, as you may know, there are ways: one, the best friend whom you fall in love with, who you thought has fallen for someone else, is actually in love with you…you’re just too dumb to ever notice; two, that best friend of yours realizes that you’re the one all along, and that best friend of yours is just kinda stupid for not knowing early on; three, your best friend just made you thought that you’re better off as friends but is actually secretly in love with you, and there goes the confessions of your secret love; (and maybe there’s a whole lot more to that type of story)
ü Best friend falls for their best friend and ends up being just the best friend but the bestest-best-friend of the whole damn world!
(In my opinion, the best-friend-thing-sort-of excuse is really absurd…if your best friend is from the opposite sex, there is always the danger of one falling for the other…only one of the two things will happen: it would either ruin your friendship or you would eventually end up with each other…but truth is, it actually happens in real life and not just in movies!)
ü A stranger meets a stranger. (I guess that’s also a typical—and generally the most popular—start for any love stories in movies…aside, of course if you’re best friends or simply friends, maybe). Either, a dog-and-cat type of a meeting where one is pissed with the other, but as the saying goes: the more you hate the more you love; or, when the two met, flirts with each other early on—then of course, falls in love in the end.
ü Typical high school flicks: popular kid falls in love with the unpopular, like a geek/nerd/weird (or with a complete psycho) kid in school. Then the other kid becomes popular as well, then goodbye to the old-lonesome life (—seriously, that provides a better catch than popular kid succumbs to geeky/nerdy/weirdo-type of life).
ü Rebellious kid softens as he/she falls in love with the kinder and decent one and eventually changes for the better. (As love becomes a sort of excuse for being a better person. So, if one isn’t in love, one isn’t better??)
ü Broken-hearted, then finds somebody to heal their broken heart. (How to become broken-hearted: One, your best friend falls in love with your girlfriend/boyfriend then leaves you; two, your boyfriend/girlfriend cheated on you by snogging/sleeping with someone else; three, you just got played on by jocks/jerks/total assholes; four, bf/gf simply falls out of love or just got tired (or bored) with your relationship; fifth, bf/gf was never really in love with you…he/she just thought they are. But don’t worry because falling in love again is the best remedy for a broken heart—just don’t go breakin’ it over and over again)
ü Never really had a good relationship so far…goes searching for love…then finds out that the one they’ve been searching for was right there beside them all along.
ü Finds love in the most strangest of places with the most unlikely person. (In a story where soul-mates, Destiny, and serendipity exists)
There’s more to that list…indeed because those stories were based in real life. We also have our own love stories to tell. Probably, that’s the great thing in movies: it becomes a reflection of our lives. Sometimes we’re not even aware of it—that love is right there with us that goes unnoticed—then there comes this movie on which we can relate on…which we can say to ourselves “I know how that feels” because it’s there…because it’s true. That love exists—it exists in all spectrums of life, in both sides of the coin, in the corners of our world (I don’t care if the world is round!), night and day, rain or shine, in war or in peace, good or bad, heaven and hell, sun and moon—it’s everywhere! And there are different ways to tell great stories of love. Maybe that’s why we never run out of movies. There is always this movie which will bring us tears, joy, inspiration, and sometimes strength to pursue that love. And when watching movies, it makes us believe that true love exists…and sometimes, it also tells us that not all great love stories ends in a happy note…that not great endings has to start with a great beginning…or that not all stories even begins—some ends right before it starts. Sometimes it teaches us valuable lessons on love—and life in general. Love—can make or break a life, heal or mend the broken, become one’s strength or weakness…and that love is sometimes, all a person has.
POSTSCRIPT:
Everyone is a story-teller…everyone has a story to tell.
So, what’s your love story?
