Forget Paris

The title of the movie was named Forget Paris as an indication that all romantic relationship started off sweet and lovely, just like Mickey and Ellen's relationship when they first met in France. However, along the journey in the relationship,  circumstances would arise and result in undesired conflict and argument. For instance, Ellen quit the job she loves just to be with Mickey but she wasn't happy. Mickey then left his dream job as a referee at the NBA to fulfill Ellen's needs. These circumstances eventually drive both party into dissatisfaction which leads to arguments. There was when things started to go out of hand, Mickey and Ellen tend to compare their messy relationship to the good old days when the relationship just started when they were in Paris. As a result, in order for Mickey and Ellen to move forward in the relationship with satisfaction, they ought to let go of their expectation of the relationship, and thus, forget Paris.

In most films, their story ended at the beginning of a love story, allowing audiences to assume that the story will go on in a happily ever after way. This films took us through the journey of a romantic relationship where we can see the ups and downs of a couple relationship. We get to see how a relationship revolutionalised from a romantic love to a consummate love in Sternberg’s Triangular Theory
of Love. The relationship between Mickey and Ellen started off with passion and intimacy, which Sternberg term it as a romantic love. This is where most relationship began. This stage can be seen when Mickey and Ellen was going out together in Paris. Commitment started coming into the relationship when they decided to commit into a marriage. However, their relationship started to fluctuate from the point when Ellen moved from Paris to live with Mickey. The instability in relationship alters around the 3 main factors suggested by Sternberg in this theory of love. The 3 factors were passion, intimacy and commitment. For instance, at one point in the relationship, Mickey and Ellen started to distance themselves from each other. That was when there were only commitment left in their relationship. Sternbergn called this an empty love. Fortunately their relationship managed to bounds back into a consummate love towards the end of the movie when both Ellen and Mickey decided to let go of the past and expectations to be together again.