I recently watched “Across the Universe,” a musi­cal that takes place in the 1960s involv­ing Jude (Jim Sturgess) as a dock worker who sets off from Liv­er­pool to find his father. Upon the sad and simple meet­ing of his estranged father, Jude befriends Max (Joe Ander­son) wherein he meets Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood).

The three migrate to New York to see where life takes them. Jude and Lucy hook up and are painfully in love. A lot of the movie is based entirely around their evolv­ing love; through their dizzy­ing highs (lit­er­ally in some cases) and depress­ing lows.