"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. Or bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. Willoughby. Willoughby. Willoughby."
Marianne Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Love is one of those topics that cannot fully be explained or expressed or even acknowledged without mixed interpretation. As I wrap up my week's look into Kate Winslet and her prestigious acting resume, I choose to end with a film that makes all sense in a matter of most senses;
Sense and Sensibility.
A story surrounding a young woman named Marianne (Winslet) and her choices of love and acceptance. We see throughout this film how oblivious some are to love and how senseless some are to the fate of love. The desire and appeal for the dashing John Willoughby, sends Marianne through the existence of "want" and the reality of the "unwanted". When John chooses the love for money over the love of Marianne, we as audiences subtly agree that in all senses; perhaps John has become senseless to the circumstances surrounding happiness in which Marianne brings.
If happiness is the existence in which people seek love and admiration in one another; are we seeking the uncontrollable doubt in those choices we've made at such a vulnerable age?
I often exude that life is about that competitive choice in each one of us to fulfill some sort of life acceptance and validity. I often evade that competition in regards to love, passion, success, status, and friendship are all reluctant to the inability for one to change and evolve.
Do we ultimately have to change in order to be in love?
As we continue to make senseless decisions in life; we are not competing the person; we are competing the choice. The choice we have to choose which way to turn, which way to love, which way to express ourselves, and which way to portray an image to society. In any given opportunity, boundaries are pushed and lines are walked. We all have made significant and even insignificant choices in our lives; yet, knowing when we've made more emotional versus logical choices in love doesn't necessarily mean we've failed; it just means we have engaged.
Marianne's character portrayed Kate Winslet in a passive role with a longing heart to have loved returned to her. Love is, and always has been a struggle with people. Loving too little is often at times overshadowed by loving too much.
Can their be a balance? Can their be a choice?
They always say, "you can't choose who you fall in love with". Is that true? Or are we just fooling ourselves into thinking we can't blame circumstance for our broken hearts?
Needless to say, we are passionately awaiting senseless acts to wake us up, and those sensible acts to point us in the right direction. Either way, love is just a four letter word, and living is six; we cannot stop living when the love is pulled away, we have to keep searching for the next tummy turning experience of belonging. Because at the end of the day, all you need is love (thank the Beatles ;-).
Wrapping up the week of Kate Winslet and her films...
Thanks Kate for a wonderful week, you have given us a lot to digest and a beautiful look on the brilliance you possess on film. Cheers to you and may you continue to entertain us all!
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