“Do you want to start over?…We could try, try it again?”
A seemingly ideal love story takes a dramatic turn. How well can we truly know someone? Can we be fully honest with another person, or fully accept them? Does intent or action matter more? How much do people change, and how much should their past matter? Is there a coherent self? Which matters more: who someone is or the story we tell ourselves about them? Why do we seek external validation and reassurance rather than trust our own feelings?
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A related article on marriage and doubt:
“The nightmare situation, for the couples in the film and the series, is that they have no way of knowing for certain that they are doing the right thing in marrying the person they’re engaged to. The monster under the bed is doubt…And Rachel comes to realise that she will never know whether Nicky is her soulmate unless she says I do and finds out. “You can’t rely on certainty, because there is no certainty in marriage, in love, in anything. The only certainty in life is death,” she says.
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