“Love don’t make things nice, it ruins everything. It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect… We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people...”

I watched 1987 classic Moonstruck for the first time this week. I’ve been watching romcoms while I work on my film script, trying to feel what works and what doesn’t. Moonstruck caught me off guard. It’s off kilter, somehow managing to be melodramatic and sweet at the same time. The plot is simple and almost too easily resolved but it’s still really absorbing. I feel like I need to watch it again to make some sort of sense of it. I loved Nicolas Cage’s over the top tortured soul, declaring his love like an operatic hero. The quote above is from his speech to Cher’s character. It feels like you wouldn’t be able to get away with this dialogue in a movie these days. The 80s teenager in me misses those days.