Movie Review: The Price Of Love

I have just heard Price of Love and I must say I am still sitting here like my heart is racing, and my mind over and over seeing scene after scene. This was more than an entertaining film because it guided me right inside the emotional frenzy that makes one look at the wall many hours after the ending credits.

After the initial couple of minutes, I could already feel that this was but one more love story. This kind of silence was hanging in the air in the opening scene, two lives collided together, everyone could guess that there is something heavy behind their eyes. The male lead felt like a man with something heavy on his shoulders and the female lead, she had that pure untouched almost fragile light, yet you could see that behind her smile she was harboring scars. Immediately, I remembered, this was going to be a story of decisions, and there is no such decision where it is going to be easy.

Their affair at the beginning appeared an ideal getaway. Roses and kindness, furtive glances and hesitant smiles that you cannot resist because they make you think that love can solve all the problems. But the fissures began showing up as the story went on. Hiding in the shadows layer by layer emerged secrets. Soft white lies used to save feelings, turned into towers that kept them separate. and then came the big one, one of those things that alter the nature of relationships, the kind that will either make you cling all the more or end totally.

What was actually great though was how painfully real the struggles were. This was not a fairytale that knocked the problems away in one night. That was primitive, sloppy love, in a sense a love that feels your patience, your trust and even your faith in oneself. At times I found myself tempted to yell at the screen that they should just tell the truth or they should not be allowed to leave. I knew why, though. You know how love is sometimes, not made with your head but with your heart and it can be wonderful and terrible at the same time.

The turning point was hard. There was no other thing, keep and endure the pain and love or leave to keep his dignity and find peace. It was such a decision that one does not like to make. And the way in which the characters managed it broke me. I loved the strength of the female lead. She demonstrated that love does not mean holding on or sometimes it is knowing when to cut loose, even though at the time it hurts to make the move.

I did not know what to feel at the end of the fourth quarter of the film. It had this silent scene of her sitting alone ever so silently staring into her face at the life she could have had and I had tears in my eyes. It was not merely sadness, it was that kindred feeling of suffering you get when you know you have acted in the right, but you still feel like it's a wound that is still not healed. And the main here you could see that his eyes were full of regrets. Love does not always stop when it goes away sometimes it goes away because life tells you that you have to pay a price that you cannot afford.

Everything was tinged with the bitterness of a reality that does not have dramatic fairytale reunions or makes perfect closures. There were only two human beings who were standing on both sides of their choice because they knew that they had done all that could be done. And in one weird sense, even more mighty than a happy ending would have been. It made me observe my personal life, the moments in my life when I lost a loved one and it made me understand that it was that love I experienced at its best.

The Price of Love is more than a movie, it is a window to all people who ever loved and never to be the same, who ever stood at the cross of their heart and had to choose a direction. It belongs to any person who has found out that the pangs of the heart are not sometimes caused by doing the right thing.

It is not one of those stories you see and forget. It will stick with you, mutter its realism in your heart whenever you think of the cost you have paid in love in your own life. Perhaps that was the reason why it is beautiful, because it is so unbearably real.

And in case you ever wondered exactly what love costs, then this movie will provide you with an answer that you surely will never forget.