I am a much happier person after watching Melody (Sealed With A Loving Kiss) because watching it was like filling in my childhood with all the lovey-dovey, childish things I never did. I never fell in love, I never made rockets, I never ditched school to go to the beach, I never eloped, and I never attacked my teachers as Daniel, Melody, and their cheery classmates did. Sounds far-fetched, no? But the thing about this love story is that it doesn’t seem impossible as other love stories because we are talking about the love story of two kids, and when you are a kid nothing, NOTHING is impossible! When something seems impossible, like being together with the person you are in love with, you get your best friend to fucking marry you in front of all you little friends! Problem solved! This carefree and painless way to solve things can make the movie a sad one because you know that once you grow up solving things in a way that makes a lot of bloody sense is not really the way thing work in the grown up world. Grown ups make things so complicated. I remember Melody asking her parents with a teary face something like “if you want me to be happy, why don’t you help me instead of putting things in my way?”. Awww. So it’s very easy to fall in love with the innocence of Daniel’s and Melody’s affection for each other and the ruckus all their friends cause.
Tags: 1970, melody, sealed with a loving kiss, waris hussein
