So, the entire movie is a couple exploring a new place while
exploring the inner lives and thoughts of the other person. The night is
magical moving from a cemetery, to by the water, a picnic with wine, a
fountain, a music shop, and a Ferris Wheel. I don’t the movie made huge
distinction between love at first sight and love through conversation, because
when they are on the “phone” with their “friends” they basically say that they
fell for the person almost instantly, and by talking to them, they began to
like them more and more.
In response to other blog post on how this movie was
different from Romantic Comedies nowadays I say I don’t agree, but instead I
think that it is a quite typical Romantic Comedy. Everything is wrapped up
neatly at the end, they say goodbye and plan of meeting in six months. There is
a passionate embrace. This movie is a much more typical Romantic comedy then
was Annie Hall, which didn’t have a happy end, but it more raw and real. I guess
these two people are living is a kind of surreal fantasy, which they mention
multiple times throughout the movies.
A big part of the movie is the beautiful,
romantic setting, full wonder and mystery. A lot of lines in the movie seem
very over written and fake. Like “I saw Grandma in the rainbow,” or “In Quaker
weddings, no one speaks unless the Lord moves them. After an hour they are
married.” I think the movie portrays
this fakeness at the end, when it flashes to all the spectacular places they
visited throughout the night, now seem ordinary in light of day. There was
something about the setting at night, and that is was only for night that made
it seem special, but part that was their own perceptions and ideals they hold
about romance and love.
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