Emotional Diseases

Why would you put the name of a disease in the title of a love story? I don't get it, but it caught my attention. I had to look twice to make sure that I had gotten the title correct. Matter of fact, I was reading about gastro-intestinal diseases when I first saw the commercial and maybe that's why the commercial stuck in my head. I had also thought I misheard the title because I was studying the very topic. But when I searched the internet, there it was, I had not misheard afterall.

I'm not going to say the title, I'm sure most of you have heard it. I just don't want people to accidentally find this blog because I mentioned the movie. I kept trying to figure out why cholera and love would be in the same sentence. And then I thought, maybe it's because love makes your stomach churn and feel funny, the way a diarrheal disease might. Could that be the reason? Or maybe because when love ends, you feel like all your insides have been pulled through your bung-hole. And it's that expulsion that you want to flush down the toilet. Maybe that's the reason.

I applaud the person who came up with this title because people like me will be talking about it, therefore giving it some attention. However, the curiosity doesn't hold me enough to go and see the film, not even when it ends up on TBS or cable somewhere. Still though, it was enough for me to write three small paragraphs about.