Lee's Styles of Love/Macro-Level Theory

Crazy/Beautiful is a movie about a guy and a girl who meet in high school and fall in love.  When they begin falling in love, they both face obstacles due to the difference in their social backgrounds.  The girl is white and upper-class and the boy is hispanic and of lower-class.  They also have many differences in their personality: the girl is wild and crazy and the guy is very down to earth, calm, and responsible.  Even though their worlds seem to clash, they both sacrifice things in their lives for each other.

I feel this movie is a great example of Agape love from Lee's Styles of Love, which is altruistic love that is patient and self-sacrificing.  The reason is because of the fact that both the guy and the girl in the movie sacrifice things in their lives for the love they have for each other.  The guy sacrifices responsibilities of his education and family just so that he can be with the girl he is in love with and be able to take care of her and help guide her in her life.  He is also very patient with the difficult situations that the girl he is in love with faces with her family.  The girl sacrifices what people think of her dating someone of lower-class.  

I also feel this movie is an example of Macro-Level Theory, which is when society controls the development of love.  Even though these characters in the movie do not constitute for the actual love developing that society controls, it does show how society can control it.  In the movie, both the guy's mother and the girl's father are trying to restrict each other from seeing each other.  The mother tries to get her son to date a neighbor's daughter that she has known her whole life and who is from the same class background.  The father is also trying to control who his daughter develops any love with by trying to forbid her from seeing the hispanic guy.