There are thousands of kinds of love in the world, but there is a romance that belongs to Harry and Sally in 1989. This has become the quintessential contemporary feel-good relationship movie that somehow still sounds real and good to this day.
love at first sight? nonexistent
Romance starts with the beauty of the first sight, but director Rob Reiner gives the hero and heroine a different kind of entanglement. One is a smart girl who is too rational and obsessed with AA calculating the bills and owes them; the other is a pessimistic and interesting man who must read the last page of a new book and know the answer before he dies. On the way to New York to start a new life, I have diametrically opposite perceptions of different things.
"Men can't be friends with women they find attractive, because the sexual element is always there, whether it happens or not." This is the point of discussion throughout the film, and it is also the point of contradiction that erupts at the beginning, destined for young Harry and Sarah Li was inappropriate at the beginning, and the sentence "It seems that we can never be friends" starts like the ending wishing that we will never be friends with each other.
Probably the "spare tire" in fate
In the following plots, Rob Reiner always uses the year to quickly explain the living conditions of the hero and heroine, their respective marriages after 5 years, love and divorce and breakup 6 years later. Two people who don't care about each other's lives seem to be fateful arrangements, and they intersect again and again. As they grow older, the sense of exclusion seems to become much more subtle.
At the right time, you happened to be there. People who are lonely with each other treat each other as a confidant, and have a relationship called a friend. Just like when I approached you, I took this as an opportunity. "It's the first time in my life to be friends with a female friend and not want to have a relationship with her, this is a kind of growth", as if the enlightened Harry explained his relationship with Sally to his friend Jace, he must think he must have gone crazy.
Dependent on each other but living separately, Harry and Sally, who are counting down to Christmas together, have to keep a safe distance and introduce each other to their friends. This kind of plot design is bloody but very realistic. This kind of contradiction always has shadows in life, unclear feelings and untouchable friendships. Rather than being their respective backup tires, Harry and Sally in the movie are more like the confusion of not being able to know their emotions. Because they understand, they don't know, maybe they are just used to being around.
Orgasm in a restaurant
Because there is nothing to talk about, there are no taboos. I want to tell you everything I know. In the film, Sally performed a fake orgasm scene in front of the eyes of Katz's Deli with "Boys always blindly believe that their girls don't fake orgasms" and the old woman on the opposite side was envious of "I'll order what she ordered". The lines have always been one of the classic fragments in the history of comedy films. Director Rob Reiner said at the film's preview, the scene had all the women laughing and all the men silent.
So far, the signs hanging on the table in Katz's Deli are all written "where harry met sally, hope you have what she had", Harry and Sally's meeting is each other's luck, there is no shame, no disgust, only quiet look at you and do whatever you want.
"You're the person I want to talk to the most before going to bed at night, I love that feeling", in the film Harry and Sally open the same movie in their respective homes, connect the phone and talk about interesting plots. The dual-camera pictures that appear in the picture are warm and romantic. They can have no taboos between each other, or they can send warmth to each other, say good night to each other, and probably the dreams tonight are sweet.
friendship and love wall
At first the ending of the script was that the hero and heroine were still friends and no further romantic relationship was developed, because both the writer and director felt that this was the "real ending". The ambiguous relationship in the safe boundary is finally broken by an accidental sex in the film. Two people who are in an embarrassing period are more likely to be unwilling to face their feelings than they are unwilling to face the relationship. A long-term sense of balance has weakened the standard for judging self-emotion. Between companionship and love, friendship is more than friendship, and love is less than enough to bring two people overwhelmed.
On Christmas Eve, Harry's confession regained this sense of balance and the story's final twist. Although not together is the most real, but the ending together is indeed the most appropriate. Harry's sensational confession when he ran on the street and confronted Sally again made those vague feelings perhaps even better, and suddenly found that long-term company was already love.
"I love that you have a cold when it's 71 degrees outside, I love that you take half an hour to order sandwiches, I love that you frown at me, I love being with you all day and then on my clothes I can smell you and I still love that you are the last person I want to talk to before bed every night. It's not because I'm alone or it's New Year's Eve, I'm here because if you realize you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone , you'll want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible!"
always different love
From beginning to end, the film is interspersed with seven couples who have found love over time. There is love at first sight in the restaurant, "Did you see that girl, I want to marry her"; there is a chance meeting after 34 years after high school who lost contact; . Everyone is a comedy or a bumpy romantic movie. The last pair belonged to Harry and Sally, when Harry met Sally.
We didn't like each other when we first met.
No, you hate me. I hate you too.
The second time we met you don't even remember me.
Of course I. I remember you.
The third time we met we became friends.
We have been friends for a long time.
Then we are no longer friends.
Then we fell in love.
Three months we got married and it only took three months.
No, twelve years and three months.
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