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April Flowers (2017)
Whimsical, yet deep
I loved this film. It's simple and artsy, but also explores some deep themes like romantic ideals and comfortable love. The desire for something extraordinary and the contradicting advice from her friend of settling for "good enough", is something that any hopeless romantic can relate to. April Flowers shows us the real life romance that we neglect right in front of us. So many romance movies give the heroine her knight in shining armor, but not this one. The idealized knight in April's mind (journal owner) ends up clashing with the real life writer of the words she fell in love with. It points out that the romance was within her all along, regardless of the recipient of her obsessive thoughts. I love that April didn't light the journal on fire too, as suggested by Jared. Lighting that journal would be like destroying that romantic light within April, which would have been awful for her character to do. She didn't need to give up on her romantic ideals. She just had to come to terms with romance in 3D reality, stop chasing the outcomes of imaginary love, and focus on the real moments in front of her. Favorite quote: "It occurred to her that she was so intensely focused on the outcome of her choices that she was missing the moments in between, but it's the moments that give meaning to the outcome."