Everything will turn out the way you want, if you stop doubting that I love you

[12 Mar 2007 | Monday] 

Category: Romance and Relationships Just finished watching The Science of Sleep, which was written and directed by Michael Gondry the same guy behind Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. It had that same vibe of unrequited love. Featured the same sort of sensative artist type that often gets overlooked or just plain ignored. The film even had the same cold vein of real white hot pain in it, the real kind that only love can inflict. Gondry seldom fucks around when explaining how cruel the opposite sex can be, even when they're not intending on being so. I guess it took me to a place I didn't really want to to think about. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this... There was just this one part that stuck out at me. Our protagonist, Stephane, has fallen for his neighbor. She for whatever reason does not return his advances. She'd rather they keep their relationship on a "friendly" level, which eats him up inside, but he swallows his pride along with a couple of ounces of bile and deals with it. He does his best, but secretly grows jealous when he sees her with other guys. He wonders what's wrong with him? Why she doesn't like him and all of that when all along she does have feelings for him (which he obviously has no idea ever existed). Long story short, he decides after a total breakdown of communication between them (right when it seemed that they might have had the chance to get closer, though maybe not if you'd have seen the fear in her eyes), to leave and go back home. They say their goodbyes and start a small fight. In the middle of it, she asks,"Why me?" Questioning his affections, really trying to say that his love for her is misplaced. His response is simple and resonated with me more than I could have imagined. He simply states, "Because everyone else is boring. And because you are different." I guess we're all looking for that: the person who's just a little bit odder than the rest, the person who excites us when the others can't. We want our ears to be perked and our hearts to dance. Everyone else is boring. And because you are different.