Aside from Brams Stoker’s Dracula, I say one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever seen is Hancock. Hancock? Is it a love story? Well, it depends on how you consider the movie. Hancock is a love story peppered with flying and fighting effects for the people who always want to see action on the big screen. But if you dig deeper, it’s a beautiful love story. And most of all, it’s a kind of story I witness myself in real life.
It’s a story of two people, John Hancock and Mary, made as pair immortals. They have superpowers, but they loss their powers and become humans when they get too close to each other. They should maintain their distance in order to remain in their immortal state. In the end, even with great love for each other, John had to stay away from Mary in order to let her live… and for John to be save the world.
Love is not always holding hands, nor always being together the whole day, nor always together in bed. Love is also space, breath, trust and remembering. If love is true, distance is an illusion. If love is true, the connection is not anymore physical: it’s spiritual and profound.
Khalil Gibran has a beautiful line for this:Love is also space, breath, trust and remembering…
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls…”
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