Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
This week's theme, first of a four week Valentine's Edition series, is Star-Crossed Lovers. I'm no expert in romance related things, so I had to google it, and I found out that all relationships doomed to fail due to external forces fall into this category. So here's my picks:
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Brandon's doing great at life, and gets even better when he starts dating Lana. The two of them fall in love, and they are happy like they're never been before, but he has forgotten to mention one important detail: he was born a woman, and when his best friends discover this, Brandon's life is ripped apart. With a terrific performance from Hilary Swank, it is an heart-breaking, eye-opening film about transgender people that everyone should see.
Titanic (1997)
Rose, a seventeen-year old aristocrat, falls in love with Jack, a kind but poor artist. As if their social statuses weren't already a big obstacle, Rose is supposed to marry her rich, snob fiancé Cal who finds out about the romance and locks Jack away. But that's not all, the ship hits an iceberg, Rose must find Jack only to see him freezing to death in the cold water. There's not much to say about this one that hasn't been told already. Simply amazing. A classic.
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Despite being two different people, Landon and Jamie start a relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's popular friends and Jamie's reverend father. Eventually they fall in love only for Landon to find out Jamie is dying. It's quite hard to admit it, but I actually loved this film, and I was pleasantly surprised because it's Nicholas Sparks.
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