Just watched the film screening of Elvira Madigan. It's about how a Swedish count deserts the army and runs away with a circus tightrope walker, and their doomed love affair. My friends didn't really like it but I did, despite the melodramatic overtones. When the movie starts, the couple has already started their escape together. I kept waiting for a flashback to the beginning when they met, to be informed about how they met and fell in love. But there was no flashback. There must have been lots of obstacles since he's married with 2 children, and yet he chose to abandon his family and commit treason just for her. Likewise, she chose to flee with him on a journey where they could only depend on each other, with no one else. But what made them do it? Why why why.