Love in the time of cholera

The bible says love is patient. For Florentino, it's very, very patient. But the question is: how long would you wait for love?

I read the book when I was in grade school, I didn't like it because I couldn't understand it then, and I still couldn't understand it now. I respect Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I really don't understand love's waiting game. I know some people would even go through great lengths like following the person to a different country just to be close. I believe, however, that man should draw the line between love and obsession.

The movie for me just made me cringe. As New York Times says Florentino, the greatest fool, is "both the embodiment of passion ennobled by suffering and a ridiculous clown afflicted with the disease of passion, for which cholera is a pungent metaphor."


*** Synopsis: Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.