What a Classic

Tonight, I watched for the first time ever, Bonnie and Clyde. Shock I know considering who my father is, the king of old movies. But wow, what a good movie. And, true story.

Besides the fact that it took me three hours to watch this 1 hour and 50 minute movie, thank you dorm internet, it is possibly one of the best movies that I've seen. It's a classic, like Gone With the Wind and The Andy Griffith Show. Both classics. But what makes a "classic" a classic? And who gets to dub it a classic? Just because something is old is it automatically a classic? I've always wondered these things.

I of course was enthralled by the love story aspect of the whole thing. Like I said, I'm a fairytale kinda girl. This isn't a fairytale, whatsoever, but it's still a love story. Bonnie and Clyde met by chance, began a business of robbing banks that took them through almost every state in the south, and began to fall in love. This doesn't sound like a very romantic movie, and it's not. It's full of guns and robbing and car chases. Not really something that sounds like a cuddly romantic comedy or romantic tear jerker, but it shows truth. It shows true love. Clyde, he sacrificed a lot for Bonnie. All the while keeping her safe. What a man that Clyde is. The movie showed him fighting for his woman through everything. He worked his tail off for that girl. It was a perfectly crazy love.

The only thing that I did not like about this movie is the end. It was brutal. I'm into happily-ever-after's so when the two got shot multiple multiple times in an ambush I was not very happy. But again, shows the truth. I mean it is a true story yes, and that is what really happened in really real life, but I guess it shows the truth that happily ever after is in fairytale's for a reason. Maybe this was their happily-ever-after though. It was their only escape from the law and their punishment. Maybe it was the perfect ending to their perfect love.

So maybe everyone has their own version of happily-ever-after. Of course it's not going to be perfect like the movies, but even perfect has a person specific definition. What is perfect to one person maybe slightly less perfect to another or slightly greater than perfect to another. I guess everyone has their own definition of a classic as well then. So, I guess I can say, Bonnie and Clyde, what a classic.