run_out I strongly recommend this movie especially to whom always believe to find their true love. There is nothing like that. In this film, this couple is really good match and have a love marriage. But after a while they can't endure each other. It's also just 5or 6 years. Don't you think that it is quite short time to hate each other for lovers? Of course, there are great metaphors and this depressing story is worth to watch. It is quite deep. Highly recommend to lonely cowboys! :)

paul2001sw-1 Derek Cianfrance's film 'Blue Valentine' is essentially a two-hander, with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams both excellent as they play a couple in a story that intersperses scenes from the birth and death of their relationship. What happens in between? Life, I guess. Both parts of the story are well-told, the beginning full of optimism, the ending full of bitterness, hate, and the memory of a love that has gone. What there isn't is a period where we the audience can realistically hope of a happy conclusion: to that extent, what we do see is slightly less engaging than it might have been if it was merely book-ending a more complete story. It's powerful stuff nonetheless.

thefilmnotebook Derek Cianfrance was a documentary filmmaker. Blue Valentine was his second feature film. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams are Dean and Cindy, a young couple very much in love, who after a few years, seem to hate each other's guts. Cianfrance's utilises documentary instincts to tell a realistic love story that is both heart-warming and heartbreaking.Dean and Cindy had their classic meet cute, and went from dancing and singing in the streets together to arguing with each other with annoyance and contempt. They had such a rare spark, and laughed so easily together, and yet now, they just don't seem to get each other anymore. Cianfrance, and fellow writers Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, presents Dean and Cindy's story in two alternating points in time. The past – bathed in warm light, which represents the more romantic, happier times, to the present – that uses cooler and darker colours to reflect the loss of love.I was extremely impressed by Gosling and Williams exceptionally strong performances. They each have to play two different versions of themselves – and portray two images of their love. Externally, apart from Dean's obvious hair loss and glasses, the differences are minimal. On the inside, it is difficult to tell. But Gosling and Williams does a splendid job showing the changes through their interactions. They lived with each other before and during filming – their comfort and familiarity with each other really seeps through on screen.The contrast between the before and now is handled masterfully. The last scenes where Dean and Cindy cries in each other's arms, with Dean's 'I love you so much…' to Cindy's 'I can't do this anymore…' is incredibly real and relatable. Cianfrance cross-cuts this with the scenes from their wedding ceremony, in direct contrast. It is saddening and you really have one response: how?Blue Valentine doesn't attempt the answer the questions of why things went wrong. It gives the facts as it is, and it is open for interpretation as to the causes and the why. My interpretation is that they didn't try to follow each other in their growth, and keep up with what each other needs. Even they don't know how they came to be like this. And that is the most tragic part.

Mihai Toma It is the story of an apparently normal couple which faces a mid- life crisis and everything seems to fall apart. Their love seems to have vanished and the only thing that keeps them together is their beautiful daughter. Many frustrations were piled together from both sides and the whole relation seems to be on the verge of destruction. Is there anything than can be done and are the members willing to do it in order to save their relation?The movie presents a very hard situation in a unique way, alternating present moments with sequences from where it all began. It describes what happened and how it got in such a bad state but there is nothing impressing along the way. They're just presenting the lives of two people which came together by coincidence, with love at first site, which proved to be a big mistake. Her troubled past still marks her attitude while his lack of affection from the woman he loves unconditionally (the same one that he "rescued" a while back) drives him into a life full of troubles.It is boring, quite predictable, while doing nothing to maintain your interest. To make matters worse, it ends up as inconclusive as it can get, making the whole movie sort of pointless, really. The great presentation and good actors were the only upsides, making this one an average movie which I cannot recommend to anyone.