![]() ![]() On the other hand, what makes Serendipity enriching is the concept behind it: A series of fortuitous accidents that leads us to our destiny. Sleepless in Seattle is a movie of touching innocence, carried through by two actors who could spend an entire 3 hours just peeling bananas on a kerb while talking and we would still enjoy it. So I love both the movies, in a lot of different ways and a lot in the same. So why’d I watch them back to back? I don’t know, something came over me. ![]() But no, I’m a guy, at a more-or-less stable state in life, who’s watched two very good movies. In fact, they might think I’m a tub of chocolate ice-cream and a couch away from being a depressed, wishful old maid or fat girl – who’s just broken up. Watching Sleepless in Seattle and Serendipity back to back alone on a train wouldn’t seem normal to a lot of people. I finished watching two incredibly romantic movies, and I’m quietly reflecting on them having drawn the curtains and completely isolated myself. Okay, maybe you do ‘kill’ time that way, but I have no qualms with time so I’d rather spend it with myself. You don’t compulsively need to talk to the people around you to kill time. So meeting people on trains, and sharing an experience with them, though admittedly enjoyable for some, seem forced to me. By anything, I obviously don’t mean your basic bodily functions, but things that make you think, things that make you feel. Actually, doing just about anything on trains is a beautiful experience. 1.Watching movies on trains is a beautiful experience. So here, without further ado, are the 40 things I noticed rewatching the Nora Ephron masterpiece as a fully grown woman. ![]() Weirdly, the two characters I liked most on the rewatch were the ones I found putrid as a child: Sam and Annie's initial other halves. And they weren't the only ones - even adorable little Jonah, Sam's son, came off as a real jerk. In short, I found I'd gone from completely doting on the two leads when watching it first time round as a kid to finding them the absolute worst watching again an adult. They were replaced by a guy who has a, let's say, old-fashioned attitude towards women, and a woman who is pretty damn morally dubious with regards to her relationship to her fiancée, who she proceeds to string along for months while pursuing another man. Rewatching it as an adult felt wildly different: gone were the two indisputably adorable, 100 percent morally sound leads I remembered. I'd nostalgically remembered this movie as being the pinnacle of sugary-sweet romance. Which meant this film was way overdue a rewatch.Īnd what a rewatch it was. Penned by the brilliant Nora Ephron, who was behind movies like When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Julie & Julia, this 1993 film is arguably the definitive romantic comedy of the '90s, mostly because it revolves around a singularly smart trick: the two romantic leads never properly meet until the last moments of the movie. If you have a weakness for romantic comedies (which I very much do), I'm guessing you've already seen the classic Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie, Sleepless In Seattle. ![]()
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