The Bridges of Madison County

“I don't want to need you, 'cause I can't have you.”

2 hours of people cheating their own souls to prevent themselves from hurting others. Meryl Streep portrayed such a woman who holds onto her own identity but is scared of societal oppression and “American dream” values.

Clint Eastwood, handsome as always, is the warm, comforting and sweet traveler guy who makes his life valuable by having his own rules without dealing with what others think about his way of life.

Simply, shortly and truly, this movie gives you the vibes of plots where brief encounters change people’s mundane and ordinary lives; and you know that eventually they will part; but the film is too good that you blind yourself to the reality of separation and let yourself become tortured by the inevitability of the consequence. 

Francesca’s resurrection in those 4 days, her own self coming back alive, her sexuality being cherished by herself are all bitterly profound. During the first conversations, we see how she instinctively touches herself, scratching her upper body, fixing her hair while looking at him and remembering what life was before she sacrificed herself for the others.

“Do you think that what happened with us just happens to anyone? What we feel for each other? We're hardly... hardly two separate people now. Some people search all of their life for this and never find it. Others don't even think it exists.“

• Francesca : You don't understand. Don't you see? Nobody understands when a woman makes a choice to marry and have children, in one way, her life begins, but in another way, it stops. You build a life of details and you just stop and stay steady so that your children can move and when they leave, they take your life of details with them. You're expected to move on again, but you don't even remember what it was that moved you because nobody's asked you in so long, not even yourself.
• Francesca : But you never think... you never think love like this is going to happen to you.
• Robert Kincaid : But now that you have it...
• Francesca : Ah! Now what I want to keep it forever. I want to love you the way I do now for the rest of my life, but... if we leave, we lose it. And I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one. All I can do is try to hold on to both of us somewhere inside of me. You have to help me.
• [She walks upto Robert and hugs him] 

Finding your person to lose them in a minute, The Bridges of Madison County is purely touching your soul with the acceptence of time passing, and people leaving. By far my favorite romance, my favorite heart-wrenching story ever.

“I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.”