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I Think I Get It

Love Story
1970 Nominee

100 Words
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” quips Jennifer, the film’s tragic heroine. Then in What’s Up, Doc? Ryan O’Neal makes fun of the line from his own movie. Then in a really exceptional book called The Women, a character wears a shirt that says, “Love Means Saying You’re Sorry,” or something along those lines and I was puzzled.

Doesn’t love mean taking accountability and apologizing? Then I saw this movie again, after all that. And I saw both instances in the film where it is said and finally, I got it, after all this time.

Love means forgiveness.

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    I tried hard NOT to love this movie when I was a girl, because everybody on the PLANET was obsessed with it! Truly – it ‘stormed’ the earth and shook it. Because it was an ordinary yet tragic story. I think that was it – it just – worked. Their chemistry was profoundly real; Ryan O’Neal BEGGED Ali McGraw (who was married to someone else at the time) to run away with him. I saw them interviewed when they were in their 60s or 70s and it was clear that the ol’ flame between them hadn’t faded; it was still a burning fire.

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