Teenage Memories of the Movie

Adolphus 2022-03-17 09:01:03

On a tired afternoon more than ten years ago, a high school geography teacher, who was probably not a few years out of graduation, played this movie in the classroom. This should be the first time I've seen a Tom Hanks movie, but I only remember Meg Ryan's slightly playful, slightly upturned nose. The standard dogma of industrial civilization in the story destroys the idyllic warmth of company. But the age of technology also has its heart-warming memories: the dial tone of logging into the mailbox in the movie more than once brought me back to the summer of 16 years ago. After listening to the sound of footsteps, I just got into the room to let the 56k kitten babble and fly into the vast and colorful world with MSN colorful butterflies. In the early days of the Internet, email exchanges were so desirable. With the help of high-tech speed, the book can be transferred instantly with the tap of a button, and there is no longer the anxiety of waiting for the fish to pass the ruler. The most attractive thing is that the first experience breaks the daily circle of friends and connects countless strangers. Everyone is probably curious about strangers. Calling each other across the machine, and erasing the embarrassment of looking at each other and saying goodbye, but I can concentrate on the back-and-forth emails, and secretly open the curtain to take an unreal glance at other people's lives. A group of new netizens who are newcomers to the virtual world still maintain a polite and decent appearance. Now that I see a lot of comment areas filled with gunpowder smoke, I occasionally miss the dial-up era when there was no information highway and only sheep intestines trails.

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You've Got Mail quotes

  • Joe Fox: So what's his handle?

    Kathleen Kelly: Uh...

    Joe Fox: I'm not going to write him. Is that what you're worried about? You think I'm going to e-mail him?

    Kathleen Kelly: [beat] All right, NY152.

    Joe Fox: N-Y-one-five-two. One hundred and fifty-two. He's a hundred and fifty-two years old. He's had one hundred and fifty-two moles removed, so now he's got one hundred fifty-two pock marks on his... on his face...

    Kathleen Kelly: The number of people who think he looks like Clark Gable.

    Joe Fox: One hundred and fifty-two people who think he looks like a Clark *Bar*.

    Kathleen Kelly: [laughing] Why did I even tell you about this?

    Joe Fox: A hundred and fifty-two stitches from his nose job. The number of his souvenir shot glasses that he's collected in his travels.

    Kathleen Kelly: No! The number... the numb... his address? No! No, he would never do anything that prosaic.

  • Kathleen Kelly: [on learning Joe's identity] God, I didn't... I didn't realize. I didn't... I didn't know...

    Joe Fox: Who you were with? "I didn't know who you were with."

    Kathleen Kelly: Excuse me?

    Joe Fox: It's from "The Godfather".

    [laughs]

    Joe Fox: Sorry, it's from "The Godfather". It's when the... uh, when the movie producer realizes that Tom Hagen is an emissary of Vito Corleone. It's just before the horse's head ends up in the bed with all the bloody sheets, you know, wakes up and it's... AAHH! AAAHH! AAAHH! AAAHH!

    [pause]

    Joe Fox: Never mind.