When you turn it off you'll need a stiff drink, assuming you've made it through without one in the first place.
Early in their courtship, Dean tells Cindy, "In my experience, the prettier a girl is, the more nuts she is, which makes you insane." Folks, that's pretty much the emotional high point of this movie, a relentlessly bleak look at alcoholism and the consequences of very bad decision-making. The best word that I could describe the experience of watching this movie is "scarring." Gosling and Williams are magnetic as two people who belong nowhere near each other, yet are drawn back to each other again and again in increasingly destructive ways. Things get progressively more unpleasant before George and Martha finally reveal their twisted secret to Nick and Honey.Īrguably one of the most upsetting films I've ever seen, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine has it all: a dead dog wrenching, alcohol-drenched arguments and a heartbroken child, all courtesy of the poisonous relationship between Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams). "It isn't the prettiest spectacle, seeing a couple of middle-aged types hacking away at each other, all red in the face and winded, missing half the time," George says at one point to their unlucky guests. One night, Martha invites a young biology professor named Nick (George Segal) and his wife Honey (Sandy Dennis) back to their house after a party, commencing a middle-of-the-night psychodrama that sees the bitter hosts gradually sucking their guests into their maelstrom of loathing and emotional abuse. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor play George (a history professor) and Martha (the university president's daughter), a miserable middle-aged couple who seem to take dark pleasure in hurling cutting invective at one another. Director Mike Nichols' 1966 adaptation of Edward Albee's award-winning play is about an afterparty gone badly awry.
Without further ado, here are 10 movies that prove love definitely does not always win. Lists like these should have rules, and ours is that the movie can't just be about loving couples going through hard times - they have to depict people who are poison for one another and would be better off apart. Our mutual adoration of anti-romance films launched a now decade-long tradition of going out for Chinese food and then watching a dark movie about dysfunctional relationships on America's Hallmark holiday. It turns out that we had chosen to spend the holiday watching the same iconic toxic relationship film. On my second date with my future wife, in one of those basement cocktail bars that are so ostentatiously cool that they don't have a sign outside, we talked about what we had done on Valentine's Day that year, which we had both spent alone.
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