Brightest Young Things

Everyone loves a grand romantic gesture. EVERYONE (those that say that don't are just jealous that they haven't had one happen to them. yet) Once upon a time, when I was in my early 20s, someone I met 3 days before in a different city (on a blind wedding date no less) jumped on a plane to DC just to see me again because they couldn't wait any longer. Or something to that effect. Just like that-a ticket was bought in the morning and in the evening the person was here. It was great and dramatic and all sorts of awesome and of course we had to be in love or else, and I always joked that this kind of thing only happened to people in the movies, so you know, it would never last (it didn't). After all, that is where the whole notion of GRAND romantic gestures comes from: the movies. But, if you sit and look through the moments that possibly ruined real human beings and the expectations you have of them for you, you'll soon realize, in movies, caring is OFTEN (really) creepy.
Put yourself in these shoes, and tell me it isn't:

(please note: no movies actually intended to be creepy are included)

• A Man you've never met organizes an art show just so you would come. Once You are there you realize that every single painting in the show is of you and that he has been watching you through your bedroom window for the last 5 years. Somehow, though-you still go out with him. (movie: If Lucy Fell)

• After you have misguided, clumsy, one-night stand sex with the night porter at the motel you're staying in, he proceeds to visit you uninvited (that's what's called: stalking) in Columbia, MD and later somewhere in Washington State even though you told him never to look for you again and are about to marry another man and that man is Woody Harrelson. Somehow you not only don't have his arrested but  you two end up together (movie: Management)

• A woman hears your voice on the radio, dumps Bill Pullman, proceeds to stalk you,  follow you home,  and spy on you and your only child, then write a letter telling you to meet her at night on a tall building to recreate a scene she's watched obsessively in a movie over and over and over again. (movie: Sleepless in Seattle)

• Your (ex?) boyfriend stands outside your window in a trench coat (with rolled up sleeves no less), refusing to leave, while blasting " In your eyes". (movie: Say Anything)

• You are in a coma. A random stranger (who has been creepily watching you buy metro tickets every day for forever without ever saying a word to you) takes you to the hospital only to convince your family that she is in fact your fiance. Spends the holidays with said family, and watches you in the hospital lovingly as you sleep. She then dumps you for Bill Pullman (movie: While You Were Sleeping)