Vivir Mata

One of my colleague at work, gave me this movie to watch. Vivir Mata, in spanish it means life kills. The movie deals with how two strangers concoct lies to impress upon each other, Thus they find some kind of twisted romance in their adventure. To be frank, I did not get the punch that I have normally felt from other Spanish language movies. It was a little slow going and did not really draw me into its story line. The movie deals with how some people are desparate to derive pleasure from relationships with strangers, that are more exotic, even if its a total sham and built with lies. The movie does end with a feel good effect, where both of them accept the fact that they were drawn towards each other for their respective lies and yet choose to accept one another.

In a way, I still see it as similar to how two people in order to impress each other will build a fantasy world around them. Each of them enjoys the bliss and works hard in maintaining the level of excitement. But how long can you maintain the same level of excitement? That is why sometimes people are bored after getting married and would term that the relationship has become meaningless or is losing its weight.

But if you look harder and try to understand, you will realise, that the meaning and weight to the relationship was built by this imaginary fairy tale perception by both the involved parties. Marriage is just a ritual that was performed, it should not blunt the effort for maintaining excitement at the same level or maybe higher. SO the question I ask is do you still work hard to impress your soul mate, just like you did when you met them the first time?