The Longest Ride Analysis

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My film review is on the film, The Longest Ride directed by George Tillman Jr. It’s about an art loving college student Sophia, with a set future who meets a professional bull rider named Luke taking place in a small town of North Carolina. Luke drops his hat after performing one night and Sophia picks it up to hand it back. It was instantly love at first sight. One night after Luke and Sophia’s first date, they drive by a car that hit a tree and was engulfed in flames. Inside was an elderly man name Ira. Luke pulled him out and Sophia grabbed the whicker box that Ira was determined on saving. Inside the box were love letters he had written to his wife Ruth. Sophia came into the hospital every day to read them to him. While reading, the letter causes flashbacks to the 1940’s of their own love story and intertwines with the story taken in place in this generation. It pretty much goes back and forth between the two love stories on how each couple copes with the struggles that they come across. While watching this movie I noticed it uses one of the six styles of love; Eros. Also I noticed how each of the couples communicated their love towards one another. Then lastly I want to point how their love is socially constructed. …show more content…
He does things the way he was raised. He wants to be the one who always shows initiative first. For example, he wants to buy Sophia a drink even though she insisted on buying him one first. Also has to be the one that calls first. As for Ira and Ruth, I notice Ruth wears the pants the in relationship and she seems to be more forward on going on dates. Especially in the beginning when Ira was too nervous to even talk to her. When they first started dating she mad Ira get dressed up to go see a movie because that’s how they did things where she came from. So in all how the way they communicate their love is by their accustomed way of growing