Broken Heart

Movies that Mend a Broken Heart
By Brian McDonald

The title was a lie, but whoever believes that a number of titles mentioned in article in a dating website can in fact mend a broken heart has not had her heart torn in several parts enough to understand that not even surgery can fix that. However, as wounds are theoretically able to close up by themselves, and as the platelets are bound to crowd skin openings, then so does a broken heart heal over time, and it’s great to have help while waiting for that time to arrive.

Lots of people claim that chocolate has a chemical substance that raises the level of happiness in a person. Some even volunteer the name of the substance. Whatever. As long as it’s chocolate, it’s good for your emotional health. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the variety of chocolate matches the transition of a healing heart: darkness, bitterness, peace – that corresponds to white chocolate, if you must know. In the darkness of your room with only the glare of the TV screen to guide you, any color of chocolate will taste just fine.

Be sure to get enough blankets and to dress in your rattiest pajamas. Never mind the Kleenex: with clothes as ratty as yours, facial tissue will look too divine to blow on. Besides, with a nose as runny as yours, nothing but 100% cotton will do.

When you’ve got junk food and your DVD player all set, you’re ready to watch:

Bridget Jones’s Diary. This is the ultimate breakup movie. Chubby girl, as chubby as most of us feel after being dumped, suffers through major f*ckups she has brought upon herself. She says and does the wrong things and manages to hook up with her playboy boss. The dialogues in the movie are so honest and hilarious you can almost always point at a specific moment in your life when, you swear, the same thing happened to you. The opening number by a tear-stricken, drunk-as-hell Bridget singing “All by Myself” is particularly interesting and familiar. You’ll see Bridget stumble and pick up herself all over the place.