True Love Does NOT Conquer All
True Love Does NOT Conquer All
By: Samantha Farb
The true love conquers
all narrative has been around in pop culture since the beginning. It conveys
the ideal that with true love all problems can be fixed and for the most part
you will live happily ever after. In Pop Culture Freaks, the True love conquers
all comes up in multiple different ways. One that I will briefly touch on is in
relation to class. The others are a general understanding this topic. But, sometimes
true love doesn’t conquer all and the ending isn’t happy. I think it is
important to touch on the idea that true love is a fallacy in some respects but
isn’t always touch on in pop culture. I want to identify the parts of pop
culture that isn’t always what people want to see but are more realistic to
life. What about a love conquers all with no happy ending or the problem not
going away?
Playlist:
1.)
Buffy the Vampire
Slayer (Angel and Buffy)
2.)
Moulin Rouge
4.)
Fault in Our Stars
5.)
All Time Low,
“Remembering Sunday”
I think it’s only fair to
start this blog off with a pop culture icon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran from
1996-2003. It’s plot involving a young girl whose fate is set in stone as she
faces evil on a day to day basis. She falls in love with a vampire Angel, who
is different because he has a soul. There is a spell that makes it so if he
feels kind of true happiness he would lose his soul, so he and Buffy have
intercourse and he loose his soul and it causes issues until they figure out
how to restore his soul. When he comes back you see that although they are in
love and they are meant to be they decided to stay away from each other to keep
his soul in tacked. This is an example of how the true love conquers all idea
is squashed. This show isn’t just a good example for this topic but for most
topics in pop culture touching on topics like feminism and sexuality. It also a
show that would pass the Bechdel test with flying colors.
In the movie Moulin Rouge,
we see a romance between a courtesan and a writer blossom while she is supposed
to be courting a rich duke in order to getting funding for a play that she
would star in. The conduct their love affair in secret. When the duke finds out
he puts his body guard in charge of murdering the writer because of jealously.
In turn it isn’t his murder that ends the story in tragedy but the death of
Satine who dies of tuberculous. Touching on the Class part of this love story
we can refer back to Pop Culture Freaks which using the term true love conquers
all in the Class chapter. The author addresses a common these of a poor person
falling in love with someone with a higher status. In this case they are both
poor but one has the means of becoming wealthy but chooses a penniless life
with the person they love. The main quote that is I would use to describe this
movie is, “love conquering all obstacles,” even though this isn’t how the movie
ends it gives a realistic view of how love can’t fix all problems no matter how
optimistic one may be.
As most people know Divergent become a nice follow up
to Hunger Games with its commonality of a dystopian society. It was a book that
became a box office hit with fans of the dystopian genre showing themes of
government corruption. Although the movie series didn’t end the same way as the
books, movies goers saw the love and passion between the two main characters
Tris and Four. Four being this skulky badass and Tris being this seemingly
holier than now character fall in love during a time of war and chaos. Like
most things we stopped trying to compare movies to the books because lets face
it the book are ALWAYS better, the movie gives us a happy ending when the book,
well didn’t. After fighting for their lives and for the people of their
community we are ready to see Tris and Four settle down, Tris is murdered while
battling. This doesn’t just leave four in shock but also her best friend
Christina. With this specifically I’d like to not only point out the love
between the main couple but also friendship and love between Tris and
Christina. True love is just as important as a true friendship. In real life
true friendship can conquer things that love may not be able to.
Fault in our stars isn’t
the only movie about a terminally ill person in a romantic situation but it is
about living life to the fullest because you never know what day will be your
last. In the movie and the book, you see Gus and Hazel fall in love after
meeting at a group therapy session for sick young adults. Things escalate quickly
with their friendship and turn into a love and passion that brought viewers to
tears. What this movie has in common with the others is that Gus does pass away.
And as heartbroken as everyone is there is a silver lining. By falling in love
Hazel learns how to love and live life more than she did before meeting Gus. In
this situation, it is clear that
Remembering Sunday is a
song by All Time Low, it is more of a ballet about the love this man has for a
girl and how he spends time trying to find her and is unable to find her only
to find out she is gone. Now, without really listening to this song you don’t really
see the true story behind the song. Because this song is based on a true story
from a member of the band it hits harder when you read the lyrics. It turns out
that the man looks for his girlfriend all day only to find out that she has
taken her own life. connecting this to true love conquers all, although we don’t
really know what true love for this person is, the song conveys passion and
love that makes the listener really feel true love. Now the song doesn’t come
right out and say she killed herself but from the lyrics, “Keeping an eye on
the world, from so many thousands of feet off the ground, I’m over you now, I at
home in the clouds and towering over your head,” you get the understanding that
she is dead and gone. Without learning the background context and hearing just
the song, you know that in this situation love wasn’t enough to conquer whatever
demons this woman was facing which is true to a lot of people suffering from
suicidal ideations.
Remembering Sunday is a
song by All Time Low, it is more of a ballet about the love this man has for a
girl and how he spends time trying to find her and is unable to find her only
to find out she is gone. Now, without really listening to this song you don’t really
see the true story behind the song. Because this song is based on a true story
from a member of the band it hits harder when you read the lyrics. It turns out
that the man looks for his girlfriend all day only to find out that she has
taken her own life. connecting this to true love conquers all, although we don’t
really know what true love for this person is, the song conveys passion and
love that makes the listener really feel true love. Now the song doesn’t come
right out and say she killed herself but from the lyrics, “Keeping an eye on
the world, from so many thousands of feet off the ground, I’m over you now, I at
home in the clouds and towering over your head,” you get the understanding that
she is dead and gone. Without learning the background context and hearing just
the song, you know that in this situation love wasn’t enough to conquer whatever
demons this woman was facing which is true to a lot of people suffering from
suicidal ideations.
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