Heavenly Creatures is essentially a love story
Peter Jackson's King Kong was quite a disappointment and I wrote about that yesterday. The movie was such a disappointment partly because Peter Jackson made a very fine movie Heavenly Creatures a while back, and the movie tells a great story; King Kong does not have any story. The story in King Kong is flat and has no excitement or complexity. The thing is that I have never written about Heavenly Creatures here, so I'd like to say a few things about the movie.
Heavenly Creatures is essentially a love story, though many people may not view it that way. It is also an interesting love story because it really challenges the conventional belief of what love is. Lovers are two women; though there are many gay and lesbian romance movies today, they are still a minority group. Two women commit murder, and it is tragic and it is quite horrifying, but the passion to commit murder comes from love. You can interpret that two women are confused about two passions (passion to love and passion to commit murder), but no one in history has figured out what love really is or what passion it drives. It is an open question, and thus, it seems perfectly acceptable to raise the question in the movie. Speaking of the fact that no one in history has figured out what love really is, so many couples believe that they have found soul mates and they are in love and they get married. However, half of them end up getting divorced in the end (in U.S.). If you count those who have an affair(s) while they are married and those who stay married on paper but essentially give up on marriage, those who stay married happily are a minority group at best. Given that, "love" portrayed in Heavenly Creatures isn't exactly twisted, nor is it misinterpreted. It is just one way to interpret and portray love. The story is based on a true story, and two women commit murder when they were in their teenage years; they are sent to jail after the murder and they never see each other again after they are released. You may say that they are too young to understand what real love is, but it is also an open question. It is not certain whether people have deeper understanding of what love is as they get older. All these challenges against the conventional belief of love and how Heavenly Creatures tells its own interpretation of love make the movie intriguing and worth watching.
Heavenly Creatures is essentially a love story, though many people may not view it that way. It is also an interesting love story because it really challenges the conventional belief of what love is. Lovers are two women; though there are many gay and lesbian romance movies today, they are still a minority group. Two women commit murder, and it is tragic and it is quite horrifying, but the passion to commit murder comes from love. You can interpret that two women are confused about two passions (passion to love and passion to commit murder), but no one in history has figured out what love really is or what passion it drives. It is an open question, and thus, it seems perfectly acceptable to raise the question in the movie. Speaking of the fact that no one in history has figured out what love really is, so many couples believe that they have found soul mates and they are in love and they get married. However, half of them end up getting divorced in the end (in U.S.). If you count those who have an affair(s) while they are married and those who stay married on paper but essentially give up on marriage, those who stay married happily are a minority group at best. Given that, "love" portrayed in Heavenly Creatures isn't exactly twisted, nor is it misinterpreted. It is just one way to interpret and portray love. The story is based on a true story, and two women commit murder when they were in their teenage years; they are sent to jail after the murder and they never see each other again after they are released. You may say that they are too young to understand what real love is, but it is also an open question. It is not certain whether people have deeper understanding of what love is as they get older. All these challenges against the conventional belief of love and how Heavenly Creatures tells its own interpretation of love make the movie intriguing and worth watching.
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