Moulin Rouge

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Moulin Rouge

This is probably my favorite movie for many many reasons, though it often falls beyond my memory when asked about my favorite. It is simply a powerful, emotional film that never gets old to me. While it's silly exterior and the fact that is is a musical would turn most people away, those who watched it all the way to the end got to see the real meaning behind love.

The film follows the Bohemian beliefs of "Freedom, Beauty, Truth, and Love" to the T. No matter how many times I watch it, it never gets boring. It never looses those moments that give me chills or make me cry. From the moment Ewan McGregor sings his first line to the curtain fall, I fell in love with the true embodiment of love.

But I'm not here to do a synopsis of the film. I'm here to talk about love and representation. I bring up the movie because it is, in its self, a symbol of love for my fiance and I. We sat together one night, watching the movie together in bed. This must have been a couple months into our relationship... 

If you do not wish the movie to be spoiled, do not read past this.

Ewan McGregor has the worst screaming cry I've ever heard. As he sat there clutching this fading image of the woman he loves, his voice breaks your heart. And as Zack and I lay there in tears, he turns to me and hugs me. It was silent for a little while and then a heard his whisper "I could never lose you like that. I would die." Right then... that's when I knew how much he loved me.

From then on, the music in this movie touched me in a way I never knew before. The words of love meant something far more beautiful than I had been able to hear even a day before. I know it sounds silly and overly romantic. But what's what the bohemian idealism is about. That's what it means by Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love.