Alternative thinking...

Julie 2022-04-24 07:01:05

The subject matter of the 94-year-old film is still a bit moving from today's point of view. It's just that at that time, it was still agreed that "if we are still single at 28, we will get married", and now we should raise the age to 35. 28 years old? They are still children, with no foundation.

In fact, what I want to say is not this, what I want to say is culture. In the film, a group of people sit in the restaurant and sing opera clips, which infects the whole restaurant and participates in the chorus scene that touched me the most. This is an atmosphere, which often appears in European and American movies, even with artistic exaggeration, it is still worth thinking about. Is there such a love song in China, a classic that people of all ages are familiar with, and it can touch the heartstrings every time it is sung, making strangers resonate, people who love each other hug and kiss, and everyone present It's like a scene in a warm opera... Of course, maybe I'm ignorant.

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My Best Friend's Wedding quotes

  • George Downes: It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

  • George Downes: The misery, the exquisite tragedy. The Susan Hayward of it all. I can just picture you there, sitting alone at your table in your lavender gown.

    Julianne Potter: Did I tell you my gown was lavender?

    George Downes: Hair swept up. Haven't touched your cake. Probably drumming your fingernails on the white linen tablecloth, the way you do when you're really feeling down. Perhaps looking at those nails thinking: 'God, I should have stopped in all my evil plotting to have that manicure, but it's too late now.

    Julianne Potter: George, I didn't tell you my dress was lavender.

    George Downes: Suddenly, a familiar song. And, you're off your chair in one, exquisite movement... wondering, searching, sniffing the wind like a dapple deer. Has God heard your little prayer? Will Cinderella dance again? And then, suddenly, the crowds part and there he is: sleek, stylish... radiant with charisma. Bizarrely, he's on the telephone. But then, so are you. And then he comes towards you... the moves of a jungle cat. Although you quite correctly sense that he is... gay... like most devastatingly handsome single men of his age are, you think... what the hell. Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage... maybe there won't be sex... but, by God, there'll be dancing.