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Rom Com - Why Old is Gold?

 So this morning I got a question from my husband. What do you think is missing in the current rom coms? I pondered on it for a second and it dawned on me almost as if I have thought about it already.

So these romantic comedies of 90s and 2000s had these beautiful flawless characters. Innocence, idealism, hearts of gold. Take Tom Hanks from Sleepless in Seattle or Hugh Grant from Notting Hill. Even if there are flaws, they are always crafted as to increase the likeability, basically even if they hurt others, it's always unintentional. These characters made up heavily for their mistakes too.

So the actual plots didn't carry much depth in the way they loved, it didn't showcase a lot of meaning. It didn't question your views or anything. The conversations were simple, dialogue relatable and overall picturization dreamy. Now as I am writing I realise this is the formula for latest phenomenon K drama too

But when it came to the later day rom coms and its messy characters that could be more rooted in reality, it lacks aspirational quality we crave for in movies. For that matter any genre and language, the popularity contest is always won by aspirational stuff, we always long for more and want to believe it can happen, even if it's not us or in real life. So there is this movie like couple of years back, where the leading lady goes on a trip with her friends to erase a nasty email she sent her boyfriend. So this is the kind of girl, the old romantic comedies showed as a secondary character or a negative character.

We all know the three dimensional personalities we carry but we yearn to be more than that. So that's why goody goody people might confuse you when you encounter in person but in movies, they seem divine.

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