Valentine’s day movies

I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day; I have never celebrated and probably never will. But of course, I am not gonna undermine its need or go to the extent of condemning it. It could use a better name, though. Regardless of the superficial purpose of such greeting card days, including Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Daughter Days, etc., it certainly helps the economy with its tiny spikes in the consumer market. Also, I believe it provides a tiny little purpose to otherwise monotonous days.

My idea of Valentine’s Day is to crash on the recliner, grab a beer and popcorn, and watch what Hollywood or Bollywood has to offer this year. Additionally, Sundays are not meant for intellectually taxing stuff. They are dedicated to comedies, romantic or otherwise.

I watched two. Surprisingly, they were genuinely nice ones, worth more than a lazy afternoon time pass. I recommend you watch them; they are streaming online.

“The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,” a semi-sci-fi romcom, is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The skeletal theme has been covered repeatedly in many movies before. Be it cute Bill Murray starring “Groundhog Day” or even Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt starrer dystopian the “Edge of Tomorrow”. A temporal anomaly created by singularity by a tiny perfect thing makes protagonists loop their day. He gets a bland, non-eventful side of the loop while she receives a sad part of the circle. That is all the spoilers, for now; please go watch it. Basically, a whole universe, including the parallel ones, conspires to create a perfect moment for them.

The second one is not technically a themed movie, but Disney’s Hotstar advertising it only today. JoJo Rabbit is an Oscar-winning period drama, a comedy, a war movie, and an atypical love story. It is about a boy, a massive fan of Adolf, a borderline fanatic, owing to a generation of long propaganda. He derives his life direction from an imaginary Adolf, moral or otherwise. He eventually falls in age-inappropriate love with someone the very propaganda demonizes. Please watch it; you will love every frame of it. This movie deserves more Academy awards than the only one it won.