The film "Love" depicts the emotionally and sexually charged relationship between Murphy, an American living in Paris, and his girlfriend Electra. Seeking to add excitement, they invite their neighbor Omi into their relationship. However, Omi becomes pregnant with Murphy's child, ending his relationship with Electra. Murphy is forced to marry Omi but longs for his past with Electra through emotional flashbacks of their relationship. The film uses unsimulated sex scenes to depict love as a paradoxical and sensual experience. It explores themes of intimacy, passion, and commitment through Murphy's fragmented memories and psychological state.

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“Love” is a 2015 film that depicts Murphy, an American residing in Paris. The film show
emotionally and sexually charged relationship between Murphy and Electra. Oblivious of the
impact of inviting their neighbor into their romantic relationship, the two partners decide to
invite Omi into their bed. Murphy who has been in a relationship with his girlfriend for two years
decide to invite a neighbor into their bed, a young blonde Danish teenager called Omi. Electra
thought that move would add some excitement to their romance, only for Murphy to secretly go
behind Electra’s back and have romance with Omi again. As result, Omi become pregnant thus
ending the relationship between Murphy and Electra. It forced Murphy to take Omi as his wife.
At some point, Electra’s mother calls Murphy to found out where her daughter was because she
had not heard of her given Electra’s suicidal tendencies. In a series of fragmented memories,

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Murphy recalls his two years relationship with Electra, how they met in Paris, their drug abuse,
rough sex and tender memories. As such, murphy blame Omi for his failed relationship and luck
of love in his marriage as he compare his past and present relationship.
Murphy’s action fit into realist perspective. Murphy longs for his past romantic
relationship with Electra through of a tense emotional flashbacks. Their sexual adventures such
as the discovery of their bedroom tendencies. Despite Murphy and Electra experiencing strains in
their relationship, their physical adventures keeps them going. One such adventures is when
Electra decide to invite Omi into their bedroom for sexual intimacy with Murphy. As result,
murphy is forced to marry Omi because of their secret affairs with Omi. Following his lack of
intimacy with Omi, Murphy love for Electra enables him to discover his meanest past of
personality. He thus open show his dissatisfaction with Omi. As such, love in the film is depicted
as an exhausting affairs. Murphy gets exhausted for his passion for Electra keeps on pressing him
through flashback is past romantic life. He thus conclude that his romantic feeling for Electra
remains intact. As a result of self-awareness, Murphy it be concluded on the basis of
psychological emotions that the feeling plays a significant role in the formation of Murphy’s
character. Murphy psychological state can be explained through the triangular theory of love that
applies the metaphor of intimacy, passion and Decision or commitment. Using this concept
intimacy can to be used to analyze the contentedness, and closeness between Murphy and
Electra. It can thus be argued that Murphy recalls his romantic relationship with Electra because

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of the physical attraction, and sexual consummation they had. In the film, Murphy get relief from
his past romantic life even though his memory is fragmented. Murphy’s character is portrayed as
someone who want to stay in the past evident by his adherence use of the camera with a reddish-
brown camera filters.
Electra’s action focuses on realism. She decided to have a romantic relationship with
Murphy. Electra has been in romantic relationship with Murphy for two years. In an attempt to
make perfect their relationship, he invites Omi for a threesome, however, this adventure result in
Omi getting pregnant and eventual separation between Murphy and Electra. Electra decision to
invite Omi can make one be confused about love and more frustrating especially when one
thinks about love. Through Electra’s action, love is depicted as paradoxical work of sensuality.
The unsimulated sexual scenes in the film makes a bond of empathy instead of having
empathetic bond for the characters for their actions. The film fit into realist perspective because
through Murphy and Electra actions, real incidence can be observed. Based on the power of
photography and the images shown in the film, I can relate to the some of the incidence
happening in the film as being true account of most youths in the real world.
Omi is an invited guest into Murphy and Electra’s romantic relationship. The obscure
scenes especially the first time interaction between the main character in the film can hardly be
overlooked. As a result, the complexity of emotional feelings result into a disconnect between

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Omi and Murphy because the latter could longer find the same feeling he used to have with
Electra. Realism thrive to show the real incidence in the society; what actually happens in the
film. Omi is depicted as unprofessional actor with minimal effect, an aspect that work to show
how love can a times be a pathological addiction, provocative and form of shocking.
In Murphy’s perspective, love was real. His romantic relationship that were depicted by
several scenes of extreme love-making move can be judged as realistic. However, some of these
incidence are captured in the form of flashback. The real account is his relationship is with Omi,
who eventually became his wife. This is what ought to be real, but because of flashback and
nostalgia of missing Electra, Murphy cannot endure the loss of his two year love and thus he
must move out of the relationship. As such, his romantic relationship with Omi is unrealistic.