Romance film
The romance film has as its central plot the
beginning, obstruction and eventual, though often tragic,
fruition of
romantic love. A common derogatory term for such films is
"weepy" since they can reduce the audience to (willing)
tears by playing on themes of noble self-sacrifice or
cruel fate.
Examples
Perhaps the most famous romance film of all is Casablanca where Rick Blaine, a bitter and cynical man following the end of an affair with Ilsa Lund, meets Ilsa again in Casablanca. Ilsa's husband, Victor Laszlo, is an important Resistance leader from Czechoslovakia with a massive price on his head and is being hunted by the occupying Nazis. Rick eventually chooses to help the couple escape, regardless of his own feelings for Ilsa, with whom he earlier reconciles.
See also
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Categories: Film genres