Read this article about how romantic comedies effect relationship expectations. Click here.
I would also like to hear your comments about how unhealthy expectations affect religious devotion. Is it possible to romanticize religion to the point that it inevitably disappoints you?
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Hey. we both posted on the same day without realizing it. I think that means we are profoundly romantically link like harry and sally.
Acutally Tom, I will just have to disagree with you here. I think an uncritical look at these productions can serve to effect ones perceptions of romance, however, a good chick-flick never hurt anyone. Besides, if you are able to look at the film with a critical eye, taking an active role instead of a passive one in the media you choose to consume, and expose it efforts to simplify relationships in terms of formulaic themes, then your real life relationship looks all the more stronger directly in comparison with such superficiality.
Unfortunately I think it all depends on the phase of life you're in. As a teenager, I admit I thought the love story in "Say Anything" was the definition of perfect love. But I was a teenager, for heaven's sake. Now I can't help but have Laura's reaction -- I watch chick flicks and enjoy them on a surface level, but my insides are sickened at the idea of ever preferring the romances depicted therein over my own real-life, adult romance.
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