Proposal

Romantic love is best described as a physical attraction. It is love that is full of exaggerated emotional and sexual desires. It’s a sexual love that tries to go beyond the realms of physical appearance, but for the most part it does not. René Girard, a French philosopher, came up with a theory called the theory of mimetic desire. A theory that states that romantic attraction arises primarily in the observed attraction between two others. I have observed a couple of couples in order to distinguish the difference between lovers who are truly in love and couples with one member that shares an unrequited love for their mate, but is not reciprocated. Throughout my research I have tried to compare romantic love to other forms of love, and the only other form of love that seems to appear more in my experiences is Plutonic, and shared between friends. With my projects I plan to construct mini narratives displaying these two forms of love. I plan on using after effect’s parenting tools to form movable 2d cut out characters to display the despair, agony, and euphoria that comes with being in love.

I feel strongly about this topic because people have approached me with their romantic problems, and I have never been able to express how I truly felt when it came to the subject. This was mainly because I observed their relationship and realize that it was destined to fail. Now I know a lot of the secrets that were never revealed in their relationship, and coincidentally am blamed for their downfalls. I have also helped patch a relationship back together.