Seeing this movie, I thought it was like the likes of After franchise, Kissing Booth, and, To All the Boys I Have Loved franchise. These movies depicted the love life of teens concerning how love works in reality. But it was nothing like it!
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The Tearsmith is an Italian romance movie released on April 4, 2024. It is a teen romance movie that captures the life of two orphans. The film was adapted from an award-winning Italian book of the same title which Erin Doom wrote.
Seeing this movie, I thought it was like the likes of After franchise, Kissing Booth, and, To All the Boys I Have Loved franchise. These movies depicted the love life of teens concerning how love works in reality. But it was nothing like it!
With few inferences to reality, the plot is a fairytale. A critical review on Rotten Tomatoes describes the movie as,’ Overall, The Tearsmith is a teen romance suitable for younger audiences who arenāt old enough to know any better.’
I quite agree with the review because of the unfolding of the plot. The movie’s pacing had an emphasis on some minute issues that could have been given less attention. The controversial issues that had the audience dying to know more about were given little attention. I want to believe that the book which the movie was adapted from was better in that aspect.
With so many inferences to things that were not further established, I believe the movie could have done better. We refused to be swooned by the depiction of love as being easy. But we cannot help but agree with the concept of love being painful and bliss as depicted in the movie.
As opposed to the concept of a world where nobody could express their feelings portrayed in the movie, one who is hurt by love can only do too much to hide their feelings. The same person who makes you smile can hurt you and it becomes more painful because you have had the illusion that such a person cannot hurt you.
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Love is a fair tale, not a fairytale
People with experience in love would not describe love as a ‘fairytale’ but a ‘fair tale’ with its ups and downs. The movie, The Tearsmith has its lovers experience ‘downs’ in love as a miscommunication of feelings. Rigel played by Simone Baldasseroni has been harbouring a long-time crush on Nica played by Caterina Ferioli. Nica sees him as a soulless person who needs love to be complete. Meanwhile, Nica is oblivious to the fact that Rigel has already given his heart to her in love.
Their love becomes almost impossible when they are both adopted by a family from the orphanage home. The only problem with their love was the seemingly impossibility of adopted siblings to be together. But the problem of love is not how to be with the person you love but staying in love with the person you love.
The ending part of the movie depicted love as a fairytale saying you can have your love story as a fairytale if want it to be. To be realistic, we know that love is no force independent of itself, it is very much dependent on other conditions. Love is not enough to uphold a relationship as we know. It takes other conditions that are much harder than they spell.
This is no spoiler for the movie, The Tearsmith is quite an unrealistic love story. It has its audience regardless of its plot story. But if you are looking for a seemingly realistic love story, Tearsmith is not your find.
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