Thursday Movie Picks: Second Chance Love (Romantic Tropes Edition)
For the seventh week of 2022 as part of Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks as part of the romantic tropes series. We venture into the subject of second chance love where it plays into someone who either lost someone or got dumped as they endure another chance in having a happy ending. Here are my three picks:
1. All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama about a relationship between a widow and her gardener as the latter is 15 years younger than her as it does play into the taboo of ageism but also in social standings. It is a film that breaks a lot of rules but also this exploration of a woman trying to find happiness again yet there are those who are appalled by choosing someone as a gardener who isn’t just younger than her but also lives a simpler life that appeals to her.
2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
3. Enough Said
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5 comments:
Of these, I've only seen the first of them.
Sirk was melodramatic to the extreme, of course, but when he got something to fire on all cylinders, it really worked beautifully. Far from Heaven is an homage in a lot of ways to All That Heaven Allows, but much more modern. It's what Sirk would have made if he were still around in 2002.
We match on Forgetting Sarah Marshall! I know I saw Enough Said but I don't remember a single thing about that movie. I wish Galdolfini was still around.
I saw all 3 of your films. I love Sirk movies for all the drama and colour. The taboo parts still play out today especially when a woman is with a younger man. Even the term "cougar" has a predator feel about it whereas Tony Randall marrying a girl that could easily be his granddaughter was never really talked about.
Sarah Marshall is better than the average comedy that you think you will be getting with this one. I enjoyed Russell Brand in this.
I finally saw the last film just recently and it is funny but endearing. Gandolfini is very sweet and completely opposite his brutish portrayal in The Sopranos.
I haven't seen any of your picks, but I'm really curious about Forgetting Sarah Marshall now!
@SJHoneywell-Far from Heaven is a variation of All That Heaven Allows as is Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.
@Brittani-I think you need to re-watch Enough Said as that is a great movie.
@Birgit-Glad to know you like all 3 of those films.
@ThePunkTheory-See that film now. It is hilarious.
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