Sunday, January 28, 2007

Are We Missing the Point about Love?

On February 11th Tim & Rachael will be continuing the Are We Missing the Point? series with Are We Missing the Point about Love? We'll explore how we can overcome the misguided view of love our culture has programmed us to have. We're looking for examples that either support the points below or that go directly against them.
  • Love is a choice
  • Love is not happily ever after
  • Love is not easy
  • Love isn't the answer
Ideas we've had so far:
Music

All you need is love - Beatles
Suds in the Bucket - Sara Evans
She Said Yes - Male Country Singer
Let Love in - Goo Goo Dolls

Love is a Movement - Switchfoot

Chris Tomlin (songs for worship)
Love the one you're with
Someday my Prince Will Come - Snow White Once Upon a Dream - Sleeping Beauty
Always Love & Concrete Bed - Nada Surf
You Wanted More - Tonic

If I Can't Live Without You Why Aren't I Dead

When You Were Young - The Killers


Drama

"Sure Thing"
by David Ives
Adapting Children's book Caterpillar & Tadpole - "I'll never Change"

Adapting Blue Like Jazz - "I thought Marriage was this"


Video

The Story of Us - You have to choose

Moulin Rouge - Elephant Love Medley

Boys and Girls - Laundromat/Coffehouse scene

Scrubs - JD Decides on Elliot then realizes he doesn't want her once he has her.

Grey's Anatomy - When Meredith tells him "Choose Me
"
My Name is Earl - Images of not-so-great marriages

The Office - When Jim tells Pam about his feelings for her

The Perfect Man - "I need a Man"

Sleeping Beauty - When she meets the prince (Once Upon a Dream)
Snow White - When she sings "Someday My Prince Will Come"
When a Man Loves a Woman

A John Cusack montage

Serendipity

Wedding Singer

Wedding Planner

Sabrina

Under the Tucson Sun

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey I was listening to "On My Own" from Les Miserable and it might work. It is a sad song... one of my favorites to sing along with though!

Lyrics:
And now I'm all alone again,
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to.
Without a home, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near,
Now I can make believe he's here.

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping.
I think of him, and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping.
The city goes to bed,
And I can live inside my head.

On my own,
Pretending he's beside me.
All alone,
I walk with him till morning.
Without him,
I feel his arms around me,
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me.

In the rain,
The pavement shines like silver.
All the lights
Are misty in the river.
In the darkness,
The trees are full of starlight,
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever.

And I know
It's only in my mind,
That I'm talking to myself
And not to him.
And although I know that he is blind,
Still I say,
There's a way for us.

I love him,
But when the night is over,
He is gone,
The river's just a river.
Without him,
The world around me changes.
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers.

I love him,
But every day I'm learning,
All my life,
I've only been pretending!
Without me,
His world will go on turning,
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!

I love him...
I love him...
I love him...
But only on my own...

-Liz Miller

Anonymous said...

There is a song by the Ataris called "I'm not capable of love".

Anonymous said...

isn't there a tv show called "Til Death" that is an overly realistic depiction of marriage and what it is like after the "magic" fades a bit?

Anonymous said...

"She Says" by Unwritten Law
Main chorus line says "She says 'I don't love you like I loved you before.'"
Not sure about the rest of the lyrics though.