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Some people never let go

Saturday, June 18, 2005 ★ 13:12 ★ Category Films

A quiet field, a cloudless sky, a man, a woman, a romantic picnic, a hot-air balloon almost crashing right beside them. The man—his name is Joe—and some other people just happening to be there try their best to rescue a child out of the balloon basket. But when the balloon lifts off again, they all have to let go. One of them refuses to give up, but after one minute his arms give up on him. He cannot longer hold the rope and falls down. Dead.

Enduring Love

Photo shamelessly cropped from a photo on the official Enduring Love site at Paramount Classics.

That’s the opening scene of the film Enduring Love. But that’s just the start. A man called Jed, one of the witnesses of the accident, is shocked and tries to contact Joe, because he needs to talk. Joe—a rationalist professor—doesn’t feel like having emotional chatsessions about what happened and tells Jed to leave him alone.

From that moment on, Jed becomes obsessed with Joe and starts stalking him. Life can take unpredicted turns and that’s beautifully depicted in this psychodramatic film.