Any movie or TV series that depicts a very unhealthy romantic relationship?

[blankisomeone]

Got any recommendation?

[Leo Gura]

Movies are designed for drama.

There is never a movie in which everything goes well and everyone gets along. People pay to see people suffering through hell.

When you are writing a story, as the writer, you deliberately add problems to characters where none existed.

[Preety_India]

 

Isn't real life enough of a movie? 

Oh well...Nevermind.. Maybe just mine. 

 

 

[Joel3102]

Revolutionary Road

Gone Girl

[still_no_satori]

^^^Revolutionary Road is a good recommendation. It may star Di Caprio and Winslet but Titanic 2 it aint!

Blue Valentine is my main recommendation. Really good movie. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. It shows how a relationship can start sunshine and rainbows and descend into pure devilry. I'm sure a lot of couples went to see it thinking it'd be a nice little chick flick and instead would have ended up getting something disturbingly different! 

I think a great challenge for anyone in a romantic relationship (and who is considering to take it to the "next level") would be to watch Blue Valentine and read The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. If you both still genuinely feel good about committment and marriage after that double bill, then you're probably good to go! If everyone did that double bill it would save A LOT of time and energy on pointless long term relationships that don't go anywhere.

Edited September 6, 2020 by still_no_satori
Added props to above poster for their recommendation

[still_no_satori]

You've probably seen it but Leaving Las Vegas (Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Shue) is a tremendous film about a very unique relationship (alcoholic with a death wish meets sex worker). I'm not completely sure if the actual relationship is very unhealthy or if its just both the protagonists are very unhealthily minded people. Either way its a top 10 all time film for me so I had to mention it. 

If you like psychological horror I'd recommend Antichrist (Willem Defoe), thats a pretty effed up marriage they have going on in that one! Kind of an art film so only watch if you like that sort of thing and don't mind disturbing imagery.

And my joke recommendation is Kill Bill lol. You can't say thats not a very unhealthy romantic relationship!

[still_no_satori]

@Leo Gura I have heard you say 'Her' is one of your favourites. How would you categorise the relationship in that one?

Edited September 6, 2020 by still_no_satori
grammar

[intotheblack]

500 days of summer 

not without my daughter 

closer 

lars and the real girl 

Nymphomaniac 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by intotheblack

[Leo Gura]

39 minutes ago, still_no_satori said:

@Leo Gura I have heard you say 'Her' is one of your favourites. How would you categorise the relationship in that one?

Yeah, that's a great one.

[universe]

Almost all hollywood movies depict slightly unhealthy relationships. 

There are some great examples in this video