For someone as impressionable as Sam’s eight-year-old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), finding a new mom worthy of his father’s love isn’t dependent on her mutual appreciation for baseball player Brooks Robinson, but the fact that Annie mentions it in her first letter to Sam is symbolic, a sign of good taste in addition to being an omen. No matter how old, disillusioned, or unhappy these women are in their relationships, they recognize the potential of true love in An Affair to Remember, and want to believe the same fate awaits Annie. Children and women in Sleepless in Seattle are wont to believe in the magic of love, and every female character fawns over An Affair to Remember, the 1957 classic that Sleepless in Seattle is modeled after.
Despite the characters’ attempts to be rational, there’s an irresistible urge to give into confirmation bias everything that brings Annie and Sam closer together is deemed either a sign or mere coincidence. The film is concerned with the internalization of social constructs about love, from a lifetime of witnessing portrayals of romance in popular culture, and seeing how those ideas manifest in one’s own real love life. So, too, is the idea that couples are brought together cosmically instead of by random chance.Īre Annie and Sam meant to be together forever? Sleepless in Seattle is uninterested in that question, though on the surface it certainly appears to be affirming it. Love at first sight (or first listen, or first letter) is a myth. Indeed, the film ends before they can speak more than a handful of lines to one another. Yet Sleepless in Seattle never tries to hide the fact that the love between Annie and Hanks’s Sam-no matter how destined it appears to be-is imaginary and idealized. “You want to be in love in a movie.” Director Nora Ephron speaks indirectly to her audience in that single line the film, after all, is a Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks vehicle that hews to rom-com tradition. If you happen to be female, this is DEFINITELY worth watching.“You don’t want to be in love,” Becky (Rosie O’Donnell) tells an infatuated, conflicted Annie (Meg Ryan) in Sleepless in Seattle. Overall, if you're in for a feel good romance, you should see this.
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Instead, the movie takes a more simplistic approach, and it succeeds-it feels much more natural than the alternative. You could have had a big, romantic, tear-jerking moment.
The ending scene in particular is handled very carefully. The movie's plot starts to stretch plausibility at the end, but not to the point where it destroys the entire film. He does not fail here-you feel for him especially during the sequences where he starts remembering his late wife. He always has a knack for easily slipping into the roles he's given and making them really convincing. Tom Hanks really shines here as someone who has lost the most important person in his life and is trying to rebuild again. Most movies fall into this trap-Someone is about to marry someone who is horrible and find that someone else is better, the viewer supposedly not feeling bad because the fiance was a jerk anyway. What I particularly liked is that the fiance was not portrayed as someone who Meg would do well to leave. She is very believable and actually does care about the feelings of her fiance. Meg Ryan does not have the "evil woman" syndrome that popped up in later 90's chick flicks (The most notorious of which was "My Best Friend's Wedding"). I have to disagree with an earlier comment that this film is unfair to guys-the way the characters are portrayed, I'd have to say that in the reverse situation, I'd still feel the same way. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have great chemistry together, and they both do what they're good at-Tom Hanks portraying the Everyman, and Meg Ryan being cute and innocent. That said, it's a high-end chick flick, which probably a few guys might enjoy, unless they happen to be the exploding helicopter type^^ This movie feels more like a modern day adaptation of the classic romance "An Affair To Remember," and it keeps referencing it too (In fact, the Cary Grant classic is very integral to the plot). I won't lie to you-this movie is a CHICK FLICK! Though I never saw it with a guy, it is definitely a chick flick.
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