These 10 movies portrayed romance in the most unconventional way.
Romance is a genre that no one wants to stay away from, I mean, take Bollywood for instance, each and every film in Bollywood would have a romantic element to it, which at times seems completely out of need. However, makers are making what the buyers are buying.
In midst of all these romantic movies, we have now a ton of some very cliched romantic flicks that make absolutely no sense. These cliched romantic flicks have made the entire romance just too mythical to believe in. Certain films, that have gone on to become classic romantic films just have too much drama in them, which are not relatable. Definitely not relatable for couples who are not at all, our conventional couples. These couples have different people with different stories to tell and they like different things, and there are movies that can satisfy their hunger for some good, simple and relatable romantic movies.
So, here are 10 unconventionally romantic movies for all the unconventional couples out there.
1. Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine decodes love through different ages. The story is so cute that it becomes hard to get the characters out of your mind after watching it. They’ve sheer relatability in them and show the entire relationships in a very real way.
2. Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is an LGBTQ love story where two men fall for each other. It’s an amazing movie with loss and regrets at its core, which will make you cry various times.
3. Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Blue Is The Warmest Colour is considered to be another great movie which revolves around the LGBTQ relationship. The main character Adele goes through a very important part of her life, decoding what she wants in it. The story seems too real to get away with.
4. Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook showed love in a very different way where both the characters initially want something different from each other. It’s a story about how love is there for you, even when you’ve been cheated by it initially.
5. Begin Again
Begin Again is full of some of the most amazing songs in any Hollywood movie, plus, it just shows love in a very different way. At times you won’t even feel it to be a romantic movie, but then it changes. The movie goes through various ups and downs, with beautiful tracks in between.
6. Once
Once shows love in all its glory, which is expressed through the mediums of lyrics and songs. There’s nothing much better than watching two people fall in love with each other with a limited time in their hands.
7. Her
The movie ‘Her’ shows how different love might be in the future, where everyone would be involved with their technology and not people. It shows a man falling in love with the voice of an AI, which might haunt one for a long time in terms of, will the future be like this?
8. Vicky Christina Barcelona
Presented by Woody Allen with all his charm, Vicky Christina Barcelona shows how different love can be for different people, even when falling for a single person. More than what you want from love, you’ll end up asking yourself, what you don’t want from love.
9. Before Sunrise
Before Sunrise is a beautiful story of how two strangers fall in love with each other in a strange land, over the course of one day. The characters are just expressing themselves to each other and somehow, it’s the most magical thing one can expect from a movie.
10. Ruby Sparks
Ruby Sparks is about a man who falls in love with a woman that he has written. And, he can make her do anything, just by writing it down. The film has a unique story and that’s what makes it special.
All the films in this list bring something different to the table and it makes you believe how surreal real stories can be.
20th July 2017
Jyotsna Amla