A Room with a View, 20th Century Romantic Movie

     A Room with a View (1985) is a film adaptation to E.M. Forster's novel from 1908. The movie is classified as a 20th century romantic movie as others, such as Titanic (1997). Titanic, being my favorite movie makes me make an immediate comparison in both late 20th century films. It is amazing how in both it's shown the power love had, and as we know still has. I believe that this set of movies was a step towards breaking the power society had over your personal love life. 

     The movies such as A Room with a View are the ones that show the real true love. Nowadays there are scarce the movies that show the love portrayed in this ones. There has been bad evolution of the romantic movies that made you believe that “love conquers all.” Are they gone? I know that the modern movies express a little closeness to reality, but I’m sure that some romantic fantasy won’t harm any romantic enthusiast like me. As there are a lot of movies that take the audience to believe the power a drug may have over a human being is positive, the “fantasy” behind the movies as A Room with a View and Titanic will still captivate the spectators.

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her (6.39).”
-Quote from the book, A Room with a View

     As we saw in the movie, the book also describes detailed how their love is present. It is in this quote where we see how George acts as his heart dictates it and not by what society wants. There are moments like this that I miss in movies, moments when you feel the actors’ connection and makes you think if you’ve found that true love. Not the movies were love relies more on the circumstances that on the power of love. Every time I take some time to watch a movie like this, I’m reminded of what true love might be like.