Building Our Genre Statement

Although it emphasizes internal conflicts , our romantic/drama film, which shows the complexity of unrequited love and self-discovery, uses the structure of a thriller based on psychology.   The story revolves around X, a teenager whose internal conflict is shown through dream sequences, voiceovers, and an emphasis on her personal experience. It was inspired by movies such as Cyrano and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. But X's struggle   is more modest and introverted, focusing on the painful weight of hidden love and the tension between desire and self-preservation, similar to Cyrano main concept. 

The film discusses love and desire and meets the romantic drama's expectations of emotional vulnerability, especially highlighting the bittersweet pain of unrequited love.   Though the event takes place in her subconscious, the dream scene, which is expressive of the fantasy aspects of La La Land, gives X a platform to express her actual feelings.   The movie, however, rejects the traditional happy ending cliché. X is confronted with the awful, honest truth of her unrequited love for Z, rather than a successful confession and reciprocation of love. This denial acknowledges that love tales don't always turn out as smoothly as we may wish, which is consistent with the bittersweet realism of movies like The Half of It and Roxanne.

A huge, dramatic confrontation is purposely twisted in our film's end, as X breaks down in tears after Z leaves with the letter. The silent destruction of her realization and the painful understanding of what she allowed to happen increase the genuine struggle that exists inside X. The last, sad voiceover and the close-up of her sobbing face highlight this within collapse ("What have I done? A dramatic study of internal struggle takes the role of exterior conflict in "Now... love feels like a tangled web of heartache and confusion…"). The film's ending, which reflects the complexity of real-life emotional experiences, is not one of resolution but rather one of lingering melancholy and unfulfilled desire.

This internal focus is reinforced even more by the film's visual choices.   X's introverted personality and the melancholy tone of her own mind are reflected in the bedroom's low lighting and depressing artwork. Close-ups, which draw inspiration from movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, are used to emphasize X's strong feelings and fragility. The story follows with a melancholic music that adds to the overall sense of suppressed sadness.   The film offers a more sympathetic and relevant perspective on loss and self-discovery by avoiding the expressed drama and violence sometimes seen in psychological thrillers. This allows for a unique examination of the silent reservations and internal problems of unrequited love.