‘Wounded hearts’, the unexpected romantic success of Netflix

Romantics, you are in luck! A new love story, as cloying as an evening by the fire listening to Kenny G, has appeared in the Netflix movie catalog and has become a success, Have you already fallen into the arms of ‘Badly Wounded Hearts’? Who would resist the story of an aspiring singer and a named marine who fall in love despite the odds. with erotic result.

What is ‘Broken Hearts’?

Based on the novel of the same name by Tess Wakefield, ‘Wounded Hearts’ tries to sneak into the 50 romantic movies to believe in love with a script by Kyle Jarrow and Liz W. Garcia and direction of Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, responsible, eye, of ‘Aquamarine’ (2006) and co-creator of ‘Sensation of living: The new generation’ (2008) and ‘The Vampire Chronicles’ (2009).

Used to working with young stars like Selena Gomez (‘Ramona and Her Sister’), Nick Jonas (‘Be Careful What You Wish For’) and Bella Thorne (‘Famous in Love’), Rosenbaum coincided with Sofia Carson in ‘Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists’ and, since then, her future was linked by a magical red thread that lengthened when the actress signed on as executive producer and co-author of the soundtrack for ‘Corazón malheridos’ together with Justin Tranter, who wrote and produced the original songs performed by the protagonist of one of the 35 best love movies on Netflix for romantics.

Sofia Carson began her career as a singer-songwriter but, little by little, she has managed to gain a foothold on the small and big screen with roles in ‘The descendants’ (Kenny Ortega, 2015), ‘Immune’ (Adam Mason, 2020) and ‘Follow the rhythm’ (Elissa Down, 2020).

Next to her we see Nicholas Galitzine, another young promise which his fans have followed for titles like ‘The Beat Beneath My Feet’ (John Williams, 2014), ‘Handsome Devil’ (John Butler, 2016), the not exactly applauded ‘Blumhouse. Young people and witches’ (Zoe Lister Jones, 2020) and one of the great memes of Amazon Prime Video, ‘Cinderella’ (Kay Cannon, 2021).

The singer-songwriter and the marine

The story of ‘Corazón malherido’ introduces us to Cassie Salazar, a young woman who survives as best she can until she is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and discovers that she has no money to pay for insulin. While she works as a waitress in a bar where she also performs small concerts, she meets Luke Morrow, a marine with whom he soon collides to, of course, fall in love shortly after.

Cassie’s policy of not dating soldiers crumbles before her glucose levels and, desperate, she goes to the military in the hope of benefiting from the medical insurance that a wedding with a uniformed guy would entail, a moment that hardly makes it into the top 20. love scenes from film history. Luke, haunted by her (literally) past problems of hers, decides to help Cassie and marry her before being deployed. For it, They pretend to be in love and plan to divorce a year later, but while he is in Iraq and she begins to become a viral star, their plans go awry..

delighted fans

with only one 38% positive reviews collected on Rotten Tomatoesit is clear that this is not a film aimed at critics but at its dedicated audience.

“It is shot with the style and verisimilitude of a drug ad.. Side effects can include eye rolling, exhaustion…” comments David Ehrlich in IndieWire.

75% of web users have applauded a title that they have taken to #1 most watched movies on Netflix in the United States and, if we check other social networks, we will soon find their acolytes.

“‘Wounded Hearts’ made me cry a lot, which is why I avoid romantic movies. Ohhh, being in love and being loved but not ready to go through that kind of pain again.”

“GIRL, I’m crying terribly with ‘Bounded Hearts'”