YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) WHEN HARRY MET SALLY(1989) PRETTY WOMAN(1990) JERRY MAGUIRE(1996) NOTTING HILL(1999) THE PRINCESS BRIDE(1987) THE PARENT TRAP (1998) LOVE, ACTUALLY(2003) SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE(1993)
Severance is about rebellion, about people who were literally created to obey finally questioning and breaking through that conditioning. There’s a storyline about someone doing a complete 180 and choosing to rebel when they realise they have a child that they’re not allowed to see, and I love that the storyline wasn’t given to the female lead, but to a previously comic male character. There’s a storyline about breaking protocol because for the first time ever you have fallen in love, in intense, overwhelming, impossible love, and I love that the storyline wasn’t given to the female lead, but to a pair of awkward old guys. The storyline about grief and guilt also goes to a guy, to the male lead.
I love that the female lead is the only one whose radicalisation comes entirely from within, the person motivating herisher, she’s not doing it for anyone else, she wants her freedom, and failing that, she wants bloody revenge even at the cost of utter self-destruction.
