I still dont get it
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carltonjhn — 9 years ago(August 02, 2016 08:46 AM)
Actually, I believe this is the big question the movie intends to address: "What is love?" What does it mean to LOVE somebody?
This is not a romantic comedy.
Jerry struggles with love throughout the film. The way he's wired, he can't simply say things or adopt ideals that he can't explain to himself. He needs to thoroughly understand what he's doing and why (hence The Memo, etc). He can't say something like, "I love you" it's too abstract. The entire, "You complete me" speech is his attempt to verbalize a definition of love that makes sense to him.
The genius of the picture is that he proceeds down this path of self-discovery in parallel paths with Dorothy and with Tidwell. He discovers what "Love" is
empirically
, through his experience. He expresses his learning and his evolution via his own words and actions all without generally using the one word "love" which many of us might choose to encapsulate all of it.
Just my 2.