Forget Paris by Billy Crystal

                

           Forget Paris described the love story between Mickey and Ellen. Just like any ordinary romantic movie, Mickey and Ellen met each other in French and fell in love in Paris, the city of love. After getting to know each other in beautiful weekend, they were deeply in love with each other. Despite the distance and difficulty that they face, Mickey and Ellen decided to get married. However, unlike their dating time, married life was not as blissful as they thought. There are various issues that they have to take into consideration, learn to tolerate in order for their relationship to work out.

Unlike other chick flick, Forget Paris depicted conflicts that many couples would eventually face in certain stage of their relationship. Personally I like the issues that were raised in this movie. In fact it reminds me of my relationship because most of the conflicts does present in my own relationship. By taking the struggles that Mickey and Ellen faced in their relationship, it gave me a sense of reality. To me it is important to take all ups and downs into consideration instead of generalizing all relationship as happy and as long as you found the one you love the most in your life, you will be able to live happily ever after just like what fairy tales says. This element of practicality is important because movie has great influence over the audience. By selectively screening the most fruitful part of a romantic relationship and ignoring the routine fighting that a couple might have, a movie could prime the audience and lead them to unrealistic belief such as ‘love is the best thing in the world’, ‘nothing is impossible with love’, ‘as long as you love me, you will never fight with me’, etc. This unrealistic belief then could play a role in all the misery, sadness and dissatisfaction face by the couple these days. It could also mislead the adolescence thus make them susceptible to the lies that they were told.