The film is about a young couple who are are breaking point just 6 years into marriage. They try to bring back the love in their life and try and remind themselves what it was that kept them together.
Inter-cutting past with present, you see how the start and how they end up but not what happens in the middle. The young lovers are fiery, passionate and intoxicating. You fall in love with them. The cute nuances and looks, sometimes words are just not needed.
Their love is symbolized in a very simple song. He says that couples pick 'their song' that are overplayed and commercialised there fore losing the meaning of the song and their love.
The song he chooses for them is just divine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=UvAQ2Q4zKro&vq=medium
Their present day relationship is strained, he lives to be her husband and she has fallen out of love with him. This part of their life breaks my heart and brings me to tears in the cinema. Maybe its because I too want/need a man that would do anything to be with me in the way Gosling's character does.
The acting is sublime, their relationship on screen mirrors real life so well. It is good to see how relationships can crumble and fall when only one of you is fighting for it. It isn't sugar coated, its just there for all to see. And my how bleak it is.
Love alone does not make a relationship. It's a good start but you have to keep it alive.
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