> > Dude, it was the best message forum post ever *anyway.* Besides, I liked the additional cloying, saccharine irony that I acheived by calling those annoying, oddly-coloured photographs of two children holding hands "pictures of love."
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> I think I make a crack about those pictures in How To Be Romantic. I remember using the words "unnatural affection." I suppose I could look it up to be sure, but no matter. The point is, I don't have anything against those pictures, but I can't figure out WHY. Think about them for any length of time, and it's downright creepy.

I, for one, have something against those pictures, even if I don't think about them long enough for them to be creepy. They drip with distended sentimentality. I simply cannot get over the fact that these are children dressed up like adults and acting like adults. To my thinking, romantic or sentimental things need to seem at least a little bit real, or at least a little bit inspired by reality. But those cards are just totally alien. They reflect nothing of the world, and everything of what a studio finds to be endearing.

But I suppose that's not really what you were getting at, was it.