That's what is so beautiful. Something so simple or some seemingly benign can utterly shake and derail a person. Sure it is incredibly sentimental but I think Paris, Texas works because it allows so many people to buy into it and relate.

Most relationships are not satisfying in their break ups. They often happen because people suddenly change. The reasons are often difficult to pinpoint. The couples in question try staying it together and desperately prevent the relationship from falling apart but to no avail. The Break Up discussed in Paris, Texas is…

If the break in their relationship is unsatisfying, it is meant to be so. That's what the film does so brilliantly. It fills us with wonderful hope and expectation and breaks our hearts when it illustrates how two people can fall in love and just disintegrate. If anything, that is certainly the story of America, with…