God of Love analysis

God of Love
Directed by, Luke Matheny

"you can't control who you love. you cant control who loves you. you can't control ,when it happens, why it happens, you can't control any of that stuff."



When I watched "God of Love",  this piece of dialogue this  stood out in the way it spoke  to the central message  the movie was trying to convey to the audience.  Part of the message was that many things that happen in life are sometimes out of our control and subject wholly to randomness. The script uses the experience of falling in love and being in love as a prime example of such instances which are not completely in our control. The main character claims that he was deeply in love with kelly and that someway some how he needed to make her fall in love with him too. However the audience is also introduced to the fact  there is more of a natural inclination for there to be relationship between kelly and the best friend, than the main character.  But so obsessed is the in main character in  directing life to go the way he believes it should, that he at one point plans to stab kelly multiple times with the love dart until it works the way he believes it should. The key phrase in that sentence being the "directing life to go the way he believes it should". Another part of  the message I believe the film was trying to relay to the audience was that just like the main character one shouldn't become  rigidly consumed in fulfilling an ideal. This is because life can be full of many surprises, obstacles, and new beginnings. However if you refuse to open yourself up that unpredictability aspect of life, and instead  stay trapped in your beliefs,  you run the risk of becoming an unsatisfied  and narrow minded person. The main character of the story serves as a perfect example of this idea. If he had  stayed trapped in the mindset that he had to  make Kelly or some other girl permanently fall in love with him and refused to step outside himself he would have never discovered what a great match kelly and his friend made. Even more importantly he would have never  been open to his new found role in life and path to happiness.   With acceptance of what couldn't be came enlightenment of all that could.