P.S. I Hate You. love, Love

Love stories seem to be popular among all ages, especially teenage girls. For some reason they seem to love a romantic comedy or a romantic drama. Love stories have a way of bringing you away from reality and dropping you into the perfect life with a companion to share feelings and a life with. Every girl fantasizes of the day her prince charming finally comes to rescue her from her ordinary life and sweep her off to her fairy tale love story. Well when are they going to wake up and smell the coffee? Love stories make you cry for a reason, and it’s not because someone important dies. Girls start to realize that these cliché love stories are just fictional fantasies.

All love stories have some type of romance, whether it’s with two dogs sharing spaghetti or with two people sharing a shake with fries. Without these cheesy stories, what else would teenage girls talk about? Without a little love, there would be no such thing as The Notebook or Dear John or even The Lucky One. The Breakfast Club would be incomplete without the little romance. As cliché as it sounds, life wouldn’t exist without love. The Beatles would agree as they produced, “All you need is love.”
One of the more popular love artists is Nicholas Sparks. Nicholas Sparks is known to inspire every one of his readers by sharing his life experiences and turning them into admiring stories; sharing dreams we wish to encounter. For example, Sparks wrote a love story titled The Lucky One. It turns out this is the seventh of Mr. Sparks’ popular novels to reach the screen. A Marine, named Logan, finds a photograph almost buried in the debris of a combat scene that stays with him through all his tours of duty. He reaches down to grab the photo and with that an explosive fires. That movement to grab the photo saves his life. When he comes home, he is determined to find the girl in the photograph (of course he is). He found the girl, Beth, and after working with each other and spending more and more time together, they fall in love.

The Lucky One is a good movie with a great storyline, but it is way too predictable. The story presents the drama and the romance that sucks you in makes you believe that your life is just one perfect fairytale. The Lucky One, just like any other love story, in the end the guy gets the girl, and they live “happily ever after.” I can see the link between these movies and teenagers because they all ponder, sometimes too much, the idea of finding true love. Wouldn’t it be funny if the girl had left the guy and they separated and both ended up lonely and depressed? This probably wouldn’t have near as many followers so I guess the cliché romantic notions will have to be continued.