Blue Valentine
2010. Directed by Derek Cianfrance written by Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis. With Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
In Blue Valentine, Cindy’s promise of a healed life is manifested in her dream of becoming a doctor. But in the all-too-real world, with her meager resources compounded by a family legacy of futility and rage, Cindy traverses not a path of healing but the American underclass of tired retro hip, drinking, and dead end jobs. Remnant disappointment lingers everywhere. All slightly, what is it? Sticky. This frazzled edge of loss is no one’s dream life. And in this story of Cindy’s love with Dean the seeds of that love’s end are sown in the beginning. We are spared the dreary middle…
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