I was talking to an actor friend yesterday, one of the things he said was that if you think about story narrative in terms of compressing human experience, roma

I was talking to an actor friend yesterday, one of the things he said was that if you think about story narrative in terms of compressing human experience, romance stories have the highest 'ratio'. You can unpack an mind-boggling amount of information from even the most trivial and silly onscreen romance. Every glance, every change in tone of voice, conveys meaning. After hearing that, I can now see why they get added to every single movie.