Netflix’s ‘Choose Love’ Makes Us Want To Dump Interactive Rom-Coms

Choosing love has never been this anticlimactic.

The Big Picture Choose-your-own-adventure stories have been around for years, and Netflix decided to capitalize on this in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and the first interactive rom-com Choose Love. Allowing your audience to choose the protagonist’s suitor and be involved in the love story seems like a promising premise in theory.

What Is 'Choose Love' About? As the name so astutely suggests, in Choose Love, you get to choose love, whether that be between the three archetypal suitors or for yourself. Filmed in the same flat and overly saturated style many Netflix rom-coms have, the film opens with the ridiculous scene of a tarot reading. This is where we are introduced to Cami's three prospective lovers: the "Magician," the "Fool" and the "Knight of Swords.

This lack of fulfillment also pervades her career life as a millennial audio producer, which could be saved by the Fool. Rex is a famous musician who is enthralled by Cami's ideas and gives her the opportunity to pursue her career aspirations as a singer. He is also probably the only suitor who has some degree of chemistry with her despite his wavering British accent.

'Choose Love' Doesn't Have a Real Narrative Choose Love's three romantic options have no further personality than what I have already described, nor does the unfulfilled and indecisive protagonist. She essentially invites us to fill her shoes for her and in that sense, her personality is actually just a reflection of ours. The journey does offer an interesting insight into ourselves and what we value, but this also means the narrative of the film suffers.

Being devoid of dynamic characters and only relying on the viewer sets the storyline of the film up for failure. Apart from maybe missing out on a different lover, there are truly no real stakes at play, and thus it ends up being anticlimactic.

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