Contents
- 1 Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming
- 2. Husbands and Wives by Woody Allen
- 3. Me Before You by Thea Sharrock
- 4. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Mike Nichols
- 5. Love and Other Medicines by Edward Zwick
- 6. “Valentine’s Day” by Derek Kianfrance
- 7. “Before Sunset” by Richard Linklater
- 8. Autumn in New York by Joana Chen
- 9. Simple Difficulties by Nancy Myers
- 10. “Diary of Memory” by Nick Cassavetes
Films about relationships help partners solve accumulated problems – and no less effectively than a session with a psychotherapist. An important point: films should be watched together and be sure to discuss. The list is attached.
Relationships in a couple are one of the most popular plots of films and TV shows. It is always interesting to follow the ups and downs of the personal life of fictional, but so similar to us characters.
At the beginning of the picture, they meet each other, they are in love – but we already know that further trials await them. But despite this, in the end all contradictions will be resolved, answers to questions will be found and love will triumph. Of course, life doesn’t always work out as smoothly as it does on the screen. Still, movies about relationships have a lot to teach us.
Psychologists from the University of Rochester (USA) compared various types of therapy sessions with couples who had relationship problems. They concluded that if the partners watched and discussed five romantic films over the course of a month, in which the characters went through various difficulties and trials, their satisfaction with their own relationships increased.
Moreover, there were fewer divorces in such couples. Even more surprisingly, the results of “film therapy” were almost as high as after family therapy sessions.
“Partners in ongoing relationships develop a good sense of what they do well or badly in the relationship. This means that it is not necessary to work out the whole range of problems with them, explains psychologist Ronald Rogge, one of the authors of the study. “Perhaps we should just invite them to think about how they are behaving now. In films, there are often typical situations in which we recognize ourselves.
The authors emphasize that it is important not only to watch films about relationships, but also to discuss them, remembering the moments in which you or your partner behaved in the same way as the characters. For example, you can start with leading questions: what is the main problem faced by the characters? Do they have mutual understanding? How do the characters react to each other’s feelings? How do they respond to displays of concern? Anger? sad?