Romances in film and TV, while beautiful, are highly dramatised depictions that don't reflect reality. Even the ones that may be more downtoearth and realistic, like One Day, can still romanticise the idea of a tragic love story.
Also, I love, love, but I need a break from romances that make me cry.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Two Tropes
01:07 Backburner Relationship
03:41 Right Person, Wrong Time
05:35 Hyperreal Love
09:09 Closing Thoughts

Sources
“Deconstructing The Myth Of Struggle Love” Deone PayneJames, Riposte Magazine
“Hyperreality in the 21st Century” Gillian McMurray
“Jean Baudrillard and Cinema: The Problems of Technology, Realism and History” Gerry Coulter 2010
“Has True Romance Disappeared in Consumer Society? A Morinian and Baudrillardian Reflection of the Acute Crisis of Simulation” By Keith moser 2019
“Simulacra and Simulation” Jean Baudrillard, 1981
“Are you in a backburner relationship?” Meg Walters 2024, Glamour Magazine
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