Forbidden Love

What will be considered as a forbidden love? A man loves another man? A woman loves another woman? A love with a huge age gap, usually when the woman is much older? A not-brotherhood-kind-of-love between a brother and his sister? Or, in my tradition, a love between a man and a woman who share the same family name?

Here, I just want to recall my memory about a movie I watched few months ago. Of course the theme is a forbidden love.

It’s titled “My Sister, My Love”, a Japanese movie whose origin title is “Boku wa Imôto ni Koi wo Suru”. The story is about a love and incest between twins: Yori (the brother) and Iku (the sister). It was premiered at 2007.

It’s a denial from Yori’s side at first. But, then, Yori was the one who asked Iku to choose. “Me or the other guys?” That’s the subtitle version. Iku, the one who fell in love with Yori since the day he proposed her in their childhood time, of course chose Yori among others. That night, they made love for the first time. In the room they shared together.

The saddest part, for me, is the moment their mother tidied up their room. She had this indefinable expression when she saw Iku’s bed was a mess, while Yori’s was not.

Back to Yori and Iku. Of course they had their happy moments. But in the end, they had to face the reality.

Then, they made their journey to the place where Yori gave his childhood proposal long time before. The love relationship ended up precisely in the place where it begun.

What so great about this movie is the sympathy created in me. When the credit title came up, I was no longer in judgment about their taboo love anymore, but moved on to sympathizing them.

Do I sound like saying that we may be allowed to judge the love, but not the lover? Am I thinking that a lover can never really choose whom he/she falls in love with?

May be.