Movie nights

This past weekend me and my friend soppy had a girly night in, complete with bags of treats, movies, G&T's (obvi) and a big duvet to cover us while slumped on my sofa.

Our movie of choice was Les Misérables 'Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.' along with being a love story between the two characters Cosette (Amanda Seyfried)and Marius (Eddie Redmayne, aka my massive crush).

So while we were sipping on out tonics watching this love story unfold it made us beg the question, where has the love gone? What has happened to the days of seeing someone across the room and falling head over heels in love. Where are our love letters and grand gestures.

This was only cemented more firmly in my brain when me and my sister went to see the film of the year The Great Gatsby on Sunday night. Combined with Sunday night blues this had me blubbing all over the shop.'“The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (played but Leonardo Dicaprio, aka my future husband..I wish), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.'

But in a nut shell Gatsby has been so in love with Daisy and hopes so much for her to be his wife, he holds party's every weekend in the hope she will attend on, fills rooms with flowers as he knows it is what she would like, his whole life is about getting her back, it makes me melt.

The Great Gatsby was everything I look for in a film, I love Baz Luhrmanns style. Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rougue are some of my all time favs. I just wanted to throw on a 1920's flapper dress and dance the Charleston.

Ok so i'm not an idiot, I know these are films and are completely elaborated to entertain and feed the imaginations of girls like me, and thinking about it, if I was presented with love letters etc I would think this guy is a little bit of a freak/stalker. But i'm a girl and i'm allowed to be fickle, I would settle however with being whisked away to Paris, Rome, Venice or Florence hee, oh and maybe a few epic parties.

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