Forget Paris (1995)

Well, love again aye?  

Well, I did not expect this movie coming. I have seen too much love in most of the movie but this is the movie I cannot relate to myself. Why do I say that? Well, I have been in love with a girl that is married? Or been to Paris? How romantic it is for us Asian that never been to Paris to able to fall in love and create such memories together. Well, in this story Mickey Gordon faces all this romantic yet dramatic relationship. Mickey Gordon is a professional basketball referee whom flew all the way to Paris to buried his dead father. Whereby, that is where he met the love of his life, the lady whom were the manager of the airport and the one whom help bury Mickey's dad. How ironic and funny it is to felt for one another based on such incident. Well, for me, I think I got attracted by Mickey's joke and how he makes a girl laugh with his lame jokes. I remember studying social psychology it stated that physical attractiveness plays an important role as it is our first impression of an individual, but well Mickey is not this one, Instead, his sense of humor make a good impression that catches Ellen attention

So, what is love? Well for me, love is an emotion, expression that makes our heartbeats beats faster, heighten our physiological arousal and mentally influencing playing with our mind. In short, I believe that means "misses someone or thinking about someone" The saddest part in this movie is that Ellen is already marry but still looking for someone which really shows an bad example to the audience. But anyway, love of never giving up one another is the part it hits me the most. Each day, we faces a new challenge but for Mickey his hardest challenge is choosing between the job he love or staying by the side with his wife. In the other hand, his wife is willingly to sacrifice her job at Paris to come and get marry with Mickey just for LOVE. How powerful is that? After some time, Ellen felt alone and wanting Mickey to quit his job just to be with her more often. Well, well, well. After much argument and so on, they finally realize they love one another and need one another so they willingly decided to be together forever. 

According to Sternberg's triangular theory of love, passion, intimacy and commitment is the key to develop a strong bond of an healthy and romantic relationship. Well of course, there are also many factors to contributing a relationship such as trust. The passion, intimacy, and commitment is strong as they have such happy ending. If the passion is not there, why would Ellen ran away to work again, then come back again? If the intimacy is not strong, why would Mickey gave up on the game halfway and decided to find her back? If you ask me, love is blind? Yes, love is patient, and love is kind. (1 Corinthians 13:4). A balance of investment between work and relationship is a must to have a long-lasting love with one another. Commitment is an important factor to contribute in the relationship. For example, committing to take care of Ellen's parents is a burden as he is old and have sickness of repeating things over and over again.