Could you name me a certain film that does not have any love theme? Kind of hard, isn’t it?
Films and music videos and dramas – stage art, as a matter of fact – really have a sort of influence over the complex ideologies of love. It just crossed my choo-choo train of thoughts these very words from a song of a 90’s band The Corrs that goes along the lines of: “I will run away, I will run away with you.”
Oh, how sweet that would be. But it is a little too idealistic, is it not? Because love, no matter how gentle or how vulgar – love sells.
I told a playwright friend I will turn up with a post on the very same subject, with the very same title, If You Look At Love Hard Enough by Mat Atahari. And in the state of meshiness (pardon the pun) my mind is caught up in, I shall write this little prose, regardless of what you presume. Hopefully it will give a little insight into my understanding of the subject matter at hand.
Is love for real, or is it void? (Photograph courtesy of Alicia Ai Leng)
If you looked at love hard enough
You will find a way
Even when the going gets tough
If you looked at love hard enough
You will cherish each day
Oh, and never once let out a gruff
If you looked at love hard enough
You will do what you can
Forgive me, and look pass
If you looked at love hard enough
All the pain sheds away
Grace befalls everyday
Leave the trivial stuff
Oh, yeah. Period.
