In Plato’s Symposium, the playwright Aristophanes suggests humans were originally born with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces - but as punishment for their arrogance, Zeus split these early humans in two, damning us to spend our lives searching for our other half. Long before Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks found each other, the idea of the soul mate had its origins in ancient Greece. But how did we get to the point where the notion of soul mates became a joke? One can only go on so many soul-crushing dates before you start to question the premise of Sleepless in Seattle. And that makes sense, when you consider our rising cultural fatigue with dating apps, and dating in general. After decades of rom-coms pushing the idea that our love lives are controlled by destiny, that a singular person completes us, it seems we’re in the throes of a soul mate backlash.
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With most rom-coms now living on television, we’re seeing the rise of series that skewer our insatiable search for a Heavenly match, from NBC’s The Good Place to the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to Netflix’s Master of None. La La Land is one of a slew of new romantic dramedies to critically examine (or gleefully trash) the idea of the soul mate. If the film had been released in another era, and especially the classic-Hollywood era to which it pays homage, it no doubt would have ended with the happily ever after marriage of its seeming soul mates. Whether you adored the candy-colored musical or despised it, you probably had feelings about its ending, in which its stars - continually thrust into meet-cute after meet-cute - don’t end up together.
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La La Land may not have won the Oscar for Best Picture, but it remains one of the most critically acclaimed romantic comedies in recent movie history. La La Land is one of many new romantic dramedies to critically examine the idea of the soul mate.
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