It Could Happen to You

Vaughn 2022-03-23 09:02:41

This is my first time writing a film review, a new goal for myself in 2014. When I first saw this movie, I was attracted by the Chinese title "Story of the City". There is no doubt that it must be a very romantic movie. In fact, I also watched it purely for Nicholas.
What impresses me most in the film is that the "bad guy" played by Nicholas always repeats this sentence: "Promise is a promise." I don't know what kind of "good guy" can be willing to win the lottery Half a million dollars to a waitress who didn't know her just because she owed her a tip. Maybe anyone in reality would be like Charlie's wife, wanting to take the four million as their own. What she did might actually be a portrayal of you and me in reality.
Maybe many people will think that this is just an old movie with a vulgar plot, and I would have thought so at first, but after watching the whole movie, what moved me for a long time was not how the hero and heroine finally came to fruition after all the hardships, but how the characters like Charlie and "Old and good people" like the heroine no longer exist in reality.
Not long ago, I heard that the young man who was blackmailed by the old man and lost the lawsuit for a huge amount of medical expenses for helping the elderly jumped off the building and died. I couldn't help but sigh, in today's world, has it become an act of helping others and harming oneself? Last year, when I just started school and entered the university, I was also told by my relatives not to obey the school's arrangements to donate blood. This made me a difficult volunteer of the Rainbow Squad who promoted blood donation...
If there were more "good people" in the world, So is the world still a good place and worth fighting for? Or is it always just a fairy tale on the screen like the story in the film, it couldn't happen to us?

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It Could Happen to You quotes

  • Charlie Lang: I told you I'd share my ticket. I never planned on sharing my heart. Maybe I could get lucky twice today.

  • Yvonne Biasi: Because of me, you have nothing.

    Charlie Lang: Because of you, I have you.