Paper Heart

Paper Heart

I'm not sure how many you readers have seen this movie, because I know that I had completely forgotten about its existence until my mother handed it to me and hinted that it might be something within my interests in love.


Paper Heart has the premise of the female comedian Charlyne Yi not believing in love, and seeking out answers by interviewing people about how they believe in love and what they have experienced of love.  The testimonies that are shown in this film are so beautiful and magnificent that you will feel your heart swell in excitement for love and its possibilities.

When a fictional plot between Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera is sprinkled throughout the film, both playing fictional versions of themselves, the movie loses some of its rawness.  These characters fall in love throughout Charlyne's journey to discover what love is in an awkward and superficial way that does not do any justice to the beautiful stories of love that you hear from the interviews.

This movie alone shows the juxtaposition of fake romance of fictional Hollywood stories and down to earth love stories we experience day to day. There is power and awe that real stories of real people falling in love that creates a stirring within our souls.  We have been fed romance from movies, advertisements, books, and magazines; enough materials to give someone a pretty good idea of love.  But is a fictional account of love the thing that really feeds our souls?

One of my favorite things to do is ask a couple how they met.  The sparks in each person's eyes, as they together recount and argue over the circumstance of how they met, is beautiful.  I want to see more of the fumbling and stumbling into love, and less of people falling love on screen because a piece of paper is telling them what to say and when to kiss.  No thanks, Paper Heart.