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The True reality of the ending and how it applies to you!


In the world of movie films, stories are altered in a terministic screen; when true world reality and ideals is absent and a fantasy reality and expectations and ideas are inserted. Movies for example, Princess’s Bride and Ever After have the expectations and endings that would not commonly happen, where two impossible lovers defy society’s pressure and end up getting married! However we see less of this terministic screen and more of a reality lenses with Roman Holiday.
In the unforgettable final scene of “Roman Holiday” we find the pure example of a realistic common love ending that you sometimes can’t be with your love, life responsibilities and life’s paths may pull you the other way and the two must separate. As seen in the final scene where due to Princess Ann's duty to her country and her royal role she must go back from her lovely day in Rome and leave her lover to go back to her life. On the same hand the handsome lover Joe Bradley must return to his own life, job and responsibilities. The two realize in this scene that their life’s paths only crossed that one magical day in Rome, Ann helps her audience come to terms with this when she says to her authorities “Were I not completely aware of my duty to my family and to my country, I would not have come back tonight... or indeed ever again!” This happenstance is seen frequently in our own reality, many of us have experienced break ups and losses where we can’t be together in bliss, but it doesn’t mean that that relationship was any less romantic or real, going through these experience helps us come to terms, that not all relationships are supposed to have the “Happily ever After’s”.

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I'm not sure I saw the same movie you did. I saw an entertaining piece of a well written fictional story, then got up, scratched a groin itch and went about other things in my life. No comparisons, no reading into or trying to psyco-analyze the films intent or myself. Just purely enjoyed it as entertainment as created for the theaters of it's time. If I was to try to find meaning in every film or TV show I saw or book that I read, and tried to inflict it's meaning into my life, or my life into its meaning, I would surely be considered by others to be on the path to a mental instability that would require hospitalization.

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