Paul Thomas Anderson’s romantic comedy is a murky and horribly well-observed ode to the importance of compromise Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Phantom Thread
One of the most grindingly difficult obstacles to being in a functional and happy relationship is also one that appears to be deceptively simple: figuring out how to share your life with someone you treasure. Once the initial,doe-eyed stages of courtship are over, there’s a subtle choreography required to interlink two disparate lives. When you’re intoxicated with romance, and this can feel like a thrilling process,laying the groundwork for a life of intimacy, saying goodbye to the loneliness that came before. But then the daily, and unexpected micro-negotiations begin,an intricately challenging procession of compromises, and suddenly the shared road ahead can feel intimidatingly steep.
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