Masquerading in Romantic Movies.

Last week, I got to thinking about masquerading in romantic comedies, or romantic movies in general. Now, mind you, I really REALLY hate “chick flicks”, but sometimes I get roped into watching one. There is this one movie, called “Boys Don't Cry”. Now while I didn't sit down and watch the entire movie. What I sort of got from it was that Hillary Swank's character dresses up as a boy to get this girl to fall in love with him/her. This is masquerading in a major way, because she changes her identity and sex to get someone (of the same gender) to fall in love with her.

Another example of masquerading in a romantic movie, is the movie “Shallow Hal”. For those who haven't seen it, In the movie, Hal Larson played by Jack Black is a man that only cares about the physical appearance of women and spends the night in a bar hitting on gorgeous women. He runs into a hypnotist and Black gets..well hypnotized to see the inner beauty of women. He falls in love with an obese woman named Rosemary played by Gwyneth Paltrow, not knowing she's obese until the end of the movie when the hypnosis gets broken. They get married after they get back together and presumably live happily ever after. The movie is great, through the masquerading it actually shows that love can come in every shape and size. This movie could also show fat shamers a thing or two, look inside someone.