Blue Valentine

Movie: Blue Valentine

Cast:    Michelle Williams       (Cindy)

            Ryan Gosling              (Dean)

Genre: Drama

I saw it on: January 8, 2010

Synopsis: The movie follows two story lines.  One shows us how Cindy and Dean met, started dating and ended up married.  The second story is about the disintegration of their marriage.

My two cents: An interesting movie.  When I see Ryan Gosling, I always think of Lars from “Lars and the Real Girl”.  Dean is a far cry from Lars.  He has some nice qualities, but beneath the surface there is a cauldron of barely suppressed anger.  Cindy came from a household with a verbally abusive father.  It was interesting to see the effect the way her father had treated her mother had on Cindy’s own relationship as an adult.  I found it fascinating to watch how hurtful Dean could be to Cindy without laying a hand on his wife. It was like he was just waiting to twist whatever she said to be an affront or insult to him.

It was a good movie with some great acting, I am just not sure that, for me, it measured up to the hype.

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