4/2/2023 0 Comments Melancholy love storyHe is a contract killer and in love with his female partner who works for him as an informer. “Fallen Angels” starts with a voiceover that narrates the context of the melancholy that the lead character faces in the film. Without further ado, here are some great films where melancholy rules with domination. Let’s not waste each other’s time let’s grab a cup of coffee and delve into the discussion of great films where melancholy dominates. Melancholy as an emotion is still difficult to define, just like the character of the people who embrace it.īut everyone knows about melancholy, right? The bittersweet feeling after a heartbreaking yet necessary breakup, the smell of the soil after the first rain of the season, the indescribable mood swing in the midst of the daily humdrum. Blending in is still very difficult for the rare eccentric odd bunches who don’t want to mix in the ever-nagging societal conventions. In the medieval times, it was treated as a dangerous disease, but with time we have learned to accept the moments of gloominess with open eyes. Snow figure in the fields facing the warmth that will melt it.Melancholy is a strange thing. So I should get on with mine and try not to overthink it, and wait for fate to decide a fitting finale.Įarly morning walk. Perhaps a story is just a story – good or bad, happy or sad. It must first embrace the potential for pain.”īut as I delve deeper, back to when storytelling began (there is evidence to suggest that Neanderthals were storytellers, too), I wonder if I should take a step away. Melancholic love stories, in particular, populate our music, our movies, our books and our art, in ever creative adaptations to suit our own needs. Since time immemorial, it seems that we all love a (good) sad ending, and stories in which fate plays a part. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was borrowed from Arthur Brooke who had translated Matteo Bandello’s story, which Matteo had adapted from Luigi da Porto (who reputedly took his tale from Masuccio Salernitano and mixed it up with his own). Tragic romances are as old as the hills and universally popular, and they are reshaped with each telling. An English version by Goldilocks author, Robert Southey, gave the couple new names, but it is widely accepted that the doomed duo were called Tello and Tazgona. However, most know the Rock as La Peña de los Enamorados ( The Lovers’ Rock), and the protagonists of its story are sometimes referred to as the Romeo and Juliet of Spain.Ĭhristopher Columbus likened some mountains in Cuba to La Peña in his logbook of discovery of 1492-3, The writer, Washington Irving, noted the tale as he journeyed to Granada, and it has survived in various guises to this day. Some call the Rock The Sleeping Giant some call it El Indio folk from Córdoba know it as Manolete after the city’s famous bullfighter, Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, who died of fatal wounds sustained during a bullfight in 1947. A tragic love story that came to a head on a rock that resembles a profile. Perhaps people then told each other a similar story to the one locals tell now. For the people who once lived here 5000 years ago, the precise position of this burial chamber must have held a prehistoric significance. At the Summer Solstice, the sun shines in a direct line from the rock ( La Peña) to the Dolmen’s entrance. However, the writing is not making me miserable (I don’t think), and I am able to escape the sameness of 2020 days by scavenging old photos for prompts.įrom the entrance of the Dolmen de Menga on the outskirts of Antequera is a perfect view of an ancient rock. Elena shows her reassuring face for only a few pages before giving way to a man. Instead, there is darkness and despair, and longing and loss, and I sense there is more to come. Something brief and digestible and, above all, achievable. A story intended to be life-affirming and light, an antidote to lockdown and disease.
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