Max Cornett- Free Response: Loving Someone is a Religion

Sometimes loving someone can be a religion. Love can be an investment, a devotion given with unconditionally blind faith, a promise of saintly adoration regardless of limitations and regulations. There are just certain people that make you abandon all other forms of interactions for a small piece of their Divinity. There are two examples I can think of in my most recent memory. 


The first is from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The two characters fall deeply into each other, allowing the other to encompass their life and alter their behaviors, interactions, and even preferences. They have a caustic, tumultuous relationship that ends each of them getting the other erased from their mind. But what the viewer sees in the memories being erased and the main character fighting to keep them. Fighting for one more moment. “Please, let me keep this one.” He is actively pleading to keep the joy, keep the fulfillment, keep the promise of devotion. He is losing his religion by losing her. “What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.”


The second example is from Portrait of a Lady On Fire. This movie centers around two women who fall in love during the late 1700’s in France.This connection, this raw intimacy is completely forbidden and must remain tucked away both in physical and mental capacities. “I am scared. Do all lovers feel they're inventing something? I know the gestures. I imagined it all, waiting for you.” The two can never end up together and they must separate. But the way that they love each other, the way that they bond and the way that they share such a fundamental bond and foundational attraction can never be forgotten. “In solitude, I felt the liberty you spoke of. But I also felt your absence.”  They each turn into a prayer for the other, a distant hope of longing, gratitude, resentment, loss, but never regret. “When you asked if I had known love. I could tell the answer was yes. And that it was now.” 

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