After reading an article about Ali McGraw recently, I decided that I should watch the film Love Story. As the opening credits rolled with music in the background, I immediately saw myself standing in my parents’ bedroom, maybe 30 years ago, playing a music box of my mother’s that had the words “Love Story” on the bottom of it.
I loved that song. And now I knew that it was the theme of the movie by the same name. So, anyway, the movie. It was fine, a classic rich person/poor person romantic relationship. Living in New England myself, I appreciated the cliched New England-ishness. Spoiler alert:
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I found the ending too abrupt. It seemed like all of a sudden, Jenny was in a hospital bed dying. She didn’t look sick, and I believe the audience doesn’t even know what she is dying OF. And I don’t necessarily agree with their “romantic” phrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
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A few weeks after I watched Love Story, I was reading an article about Liza Minnelli, and I decided I should watch Cabaret. I’ve never seen it or the musical or the remakes. Now this movie has a lot more going on. It was hedonistic, romantic, sad, and dark, set in 1930s Berlin. Spoiler alert:
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The two main characters fall in love, but they realize they are too different and end up parting ways.
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These are two very different ’70s films that are worth a watch sometime.
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