My whole life, I’ve wanted the kind of love you see in the movies. Boombox over the head, hand in the back pocket of your jeans kind of love. Boy meets girl, they break up and make up, and they live happily ever after. But in real life, that’s not where the story ends, it’s where it begins.
In movies, love is always about the big moments. Grand speeches made in front of everyone, “marry me” written on the Jumbotron. But maybe love is actually about the moments when you think no one is watching.
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021) dir. Michael Fimognari
But if only you could see yourself in my eyes
You’d see you shine, you shine
I know you’d never leave me behind
But I am lost this time
Are we destined to burn or will we last the night?
I will hold you ‘til I hold you right
But if only you could see yourself in my eyes
You’d see you shine, you shine
“Your phone number was the only one I knew off by heart.”
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal
as Marianne and Connell in NORMAL PEOPLE (2020―)
