Love stinks: 7 excruciating big-screen break ups
Sometimes relationships aren't meant to be, these films make that painfully clear
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The Americans- Philip has to break up with Martha- AND SEND HER TO RUSSIA.Then he had ton break up with that high schooler who’s dad was FBI or CIA or something. so, yeah…
Kimmi! Who is now Ruth!
Kimmi, that’s it- like every teen break-up times ten, maybe more.
Breaking up with Martha was f-ing brutal from even seducing her to start with to the break-up & forced exfiltration. Just brutal.
War of the RosesHerEternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindMarriage StoryMidsommarCasablancaBlue ValentineMan, I was starting to wonder whether BV would make the list! I wouldn’t have thought of Midsommar, but I like its inclusion.
I know this is a small-screen breakup, but none of these will ever compare to the scene in Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes.
“These pancakes couldn’t kill me, because I was already dead”.
Midsommar’s breakup was only excruciating if you were blind enough to not see it coming a mile away. What a disappointing sophomore effort.
To be fair, plenty breakups can be seen coming a mile away. It’s just a lot of the time the people who don’t see it coming are the ones who are in the relationship. And the guy was stuffed into a bear and sacrificed, which is pretty excruciating.
I remember watching war of the roses with my then college girlfriend/fiancee now ex wife. We cringed a lot, swore we would not be like that and in 3 years we were.