via DRLMA
Valentine’s Day – the romantic movies, the perfectly cute couple across the street, the expectations! They all put us poor singles of Berlin to shame. No, we have not found the love of our life yet to buy flowers or a nice dinner. No Mr. or Ms. Right. In fact, we haven’t even found Mr. or Ms. Right Now! No love of the moment or fling for the weekend or anything that even resembles a date. And if we should find somebody to go out with, the dating dilemma transforms us into nervous wrecks.
But who is to blame? You want to point your finger at Berlin or at Tinder or at the neo-liberal capitalistic society in which we all live. But it isn’t so easy, is it? Let’s follow my wild speculations after the jump and maybe we find some tips for our next flirting moves.
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by Claudio | Stories
It´s Valentines Day! One of the most frowned upon „holidays“. Some find it most romantic and plan the day or night for months. Others think that it has been invented by some clever gift card or flower shop owner and don´t make anything special of it whatsoever. I must say I´m part of the latter group and considered not even mentioning it. But then Whitney Houston died, and since then I hear „I will always love you“ wherever I go. The famous song from Bodyguard was Houston’s greatest hit and entered the charts again after her sudden death.
Two big reasons to go for romantic blockbusters, so I thought: why not? Get ready for those films that we love and hate at the same time. Those flicks that cool kids won´t even admit ever having seen, those movies which the hopelessly romantic has watched at least 50 times in their teenage days. These films seem to be a kind of collective childhood memory – and watching the trailers actually brought back tons of memories…
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by Lia | Art, Entertainment, Movies
