Should you watch Blue Valentine?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Blue Valentine
Film · 2010
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
The sides of Blue Valentine
- Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple
- Their first love and their last days cut together
- A night in a themed motel room
Blue Valentine is good for you if…
- you like Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real.
- you like watching two people slowly stop understanding each other.
- you can take a love story that ends in pieces.
Blue Valentine is bad for you if…
- you'd rather not see raw sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't watch a couple tear into each other with their little girl in the house.
About: marriage · disillusion · love
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