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It's the awkwardness and strangeness and slugging-in-time-ness of discovering a new person. Too often, movies portray the meeting of the protagonists as some heady rush or a whirlwind of sparks or some ******** like that. In reality, it's a slow fire laboriously begun with two sticks. And sometimes that fire never even starts.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 2:15 PM UTC
Why They Won't Make a Film of Us
It's the awkwardness and strangeness and slugging-in-time-ness of discovering a new person. Too often, movies portray the meeting of the protagonists as some heady rush or a whirlwind of sparks or some ******** like that. In reality, it's a slow fire laboriously begun with two sticks. And sometimes that fire never even starts.
Sick of cheesy rom-coms even though they make me cry.
vamika
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 2:15 PM UTC
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