"love is a ticket to paradise"

In the song "Let me kiss you", Morrissey the singer and song-writer expresses in a sadlike tone how love is formed by comprehension and understanding. In the song, he portrays himself as an understanding individual, therefore, it can be interpreted that he understands that his physical appearance might not be what his lover desires and could be the cause of a rejection towards him. Due to this, he explicitly tells his lover to imagine someone he or she physically admires before kissing him, in order for his lover not to feel disgust when embracing him. I feel that Morrissey's viewpoint about love is realistic, since probably one may not truly desire someone sexually but, could still love him or her due to other values that may overcome physical appearance.

In the extract from the movie Casablanca, the director's concept about love seems to fall in the category of romanticism. In the movie, he shows an idealistic but rather cliché interpretation of love. That would be the Paris location, the flowers, champagne, dates with live music, eye contact, pasionate kisses, the younger woman older man relationship... Also the lack of sex, the insinuation of love at first sight, "we just knew each other".

In the extract from the movie Sunset Boulevard, the director's concept about love is shown when the main character rejects what would be an ideal relationship due to lack of physical attraction and compatibility, meaning that love is not something frivolous, or that can be bought. A very lustful and seductive woman tries to win the love of a young man by offering material objects as well as herself to him, but he denies. As well in the ball scene, one can observe that there are almost no single women around, they are all passionately and hapily involved with a man, as if they needed one. This I found interesting, since if compared to a modern society, this particular scenario would be non-existant. Most women now a days are able to sustain themselves economically (if speaking of a developed country), therefore are not in desperate need of a man to meet this necessity.