A movie by the name of Endless Love, can be argued as a romantic comedy. Following high school, the two sympathetic main characters, Jade Butterfield and David Elliot become involved with each other. Jane is a privileged and sheltered teenager with her life already planned out for her by her father. While David is a working class teenager struggling with a troubled past. Jade and David spend the whole summer together and fall in love, it seems that they are just meant for each other. However, Jade’s father strongly disapproves of the relationship because of the boys past and his class. David’s father does not necessarily disapprove of their relationship but he strongly cautions it because of Jane’s privileged lifestyle. Despite, their parents disapproval, their peers disapproval, David’s troubled pass, and secrets in Jade’s family; the love between the two continues to grow. After all the drama the two face they remain together and Jade describes their love, “was everything all at once, the kind of undying love that is worth fighting for.”
Throughout the movies events the creator asks, “What is love in our time? What is family? What do they mean to each other? ” The movie enhances our understanding of the world by depicting what harsh and changing circumstances can have on a family, as seen through the actions of David’s dad and especially Jane’s dad. The two will do anything to protect their children and secure their future just as any parent would. It also depicts how love can make you obsessive, it can be inevitably destructive, and a threat to family. Love serves as the driving action behind the main character's motivation to be together, “the kind of undying love that is worth fighting for”. When you truly love someone you risk everything and you don’t give up. That is how love works and that is how humans work. Once we feel love and acceptance, we can achieve esteem needs, self-actualization, and finally self-transcendence needs. A final thing love does, is it allows the characters to forgive one another and accept their deep dark past. It allows them to overlook the past and accept.
I really like your analysis of this movie! Similarly, the quotations that you use really help reveal how Endless Love is more than just a romantic comedy but a movie that has things that everyone should apply to their own life.
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