By now I have watched this movie at least 20 times.
Why?
Because one of its central motives is loyalty.
Loyalty between friends, but also between lovers.
And I miss that.
Over the last ten years I have lost pretty much all faith in friendship.
People tell you they love you, they tell other people how much they love and respect you, they say stuff like how you are their best friend, their best friend ever, and then one day, when you temporarily do not fulfill a need they had, or when they find a better way to fill that need, they ghost you, they just vanish, like they were never part of your life.
That’s why I love to watch The Town, because when you don’t have the real thing, you get addicted to the makeshift version of it.
Like drinking salt water when you are thirsty, I keep watching the Town.
Like I used to watch the same romantic movie over and over and over and over again because I had no girlfriends.
That got sorted out, so now I bingewatch movies about loyalty between male friends.
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Unfortunately, I haven’t seen this movie. But I’ll use this opportunity to throw in a philosophical question: 🙂 What friendship actually is? Perhaps the higher expectations of relationship with someone we have, the higher is the risk of disappointment… However, I think that despite this risk it is still worth keeping at least a little bit of faith in friendships. I’ve lost some friends too (including close ones) but I am frequently reminded there are so many nice people around. And that prevents me from losing faith.
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You got yourself a blog post coming up. What is friendship?
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Oh, thank you! I shall look forward to it. ^_^
It is a bit tricky topic. Friendships can vary not only in terms of duration but also in terms of depth and intensity. Yet, they all can have a value.
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maybe I overvalue the idea that real friendship lasts forever
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It should but I guess such friendships are rare. I mean friendships that last forever and consist of regular meetings and follow-ups. If we have at least one friendship like that, I think it’s already a treasure.
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There is one guy I have been friends with for 20 years now. The odd thing is that often we don’t talk for months, sometimes a year goes by. Other than that I don’t have any real friendships older than 7 years
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William, would you like to have a friendship that lasts forever?
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Lost all belief in that 🙂
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