Blue Valentine

I just watched “Blue Valentine”. It’s possibly my new favourite movie. I normally don’t have favourites because there are many good movies that are great in their own ways and genres, and it’s hard to decide.

What I love about Blue Valentine is also what I didn’t like about it - how real it is. And how depressing it also is. Relationships are wonderful, but relationships also fail. There is never a clear-cut event that explains when or how a relationship dies. You could say, right from the start, they were not meant to be. Or you could say, it was in the middle when they both wanted different things and drifted apart. Or you could say, it was right at the end when all the bottled emotions came crashing out and nothing could un-do the damage. Whichever your view, it is probably valid. All we know is, somehow, somewhere, it was gone before anyone knew.