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breakinglight11October Review Challenge, #18 - "What’s your most romantic moment?"
Hmm, I wrote a bit about this yesterday, when it called for a romantic line. I probably should have saved my discussion of how Adonis, my most romantic piece, stays away from being too articulated, and so has more in the way of moments that are impactful rather than lines. It's about fairly big and complex issues of gender and sexual oppression, and I am committed to exploring them naturalistically and not making the characters talk like anachronistic gender studies majors. So it's more about the stuff happening than anything else.
I think for me personally the most romantic scene in that is when they finally attempt some kind of discussion about what's going on between them. It's hardly a discussion at all, because of the aforementioned design of struggles to articulate, more the outpouring of feelings they don't totally understand through circumstances that make those feelings absurd if not dangerous. The power dynamic between the two is so skewed— in their world he is literally a possession that she owns —and he is so damaged by people exactly like her that it feels impossible to them. But the pull between them in inexorable, and it forces them to confront it even though they have no tools or context for it. As in any drama, I find that level of conflict and obstacle to push through to make the struggle all the more fascinating.
Hmm, I wrote a bit about this yesterday, when it called for a romantic line. I probably should have saved my discussion of how Adonis, my most romantic piece, stays away from being too articulated, and so has more in the way of moments that are impactful rather than lines. It's about fairly big and complex issues of gender and sexual oppression, and I am committed to exploring them naturalistically and not making the characters talk like anachronistic gender studies majors. So it's more about the stuff happening than anything else.
I think for me personally the most romantic scene in that is when they finally attempt some kind of discussion about what's going on between them. It's hardly a discussion at all, because of the aforementioned design of struggles to articulate, more the outpouring of feelings they don't totally understand through circumstances that make those feelings absurd if not dangerous. The power dynamic between the two is so skewed— in their world he is literally a possession that she owns —and he is so damaged by people exactly like her that it feels impossible to them. But the pull between them in inexorable, and it forces them to confront it even though they have no tools or context for it. As in any drama, I find that level of conflict and obstacle to push through to make the struggle all the more fascinating.
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