Sleepless In Seattle

[poliphilo]

So this kid decides on the basis of a single letter that the woman who is stalking his father (she hires a private detective for Chrissakes) is the one he wants to have as his new mother- and engineers a meeting between them that involves him flying 3000 miles alone in the hope that his father will give chase. In consequence the two perfectly decent people our  hero and heroine were dating are kicked aside on the grounds that he has allergies and she has a silly laugh, or- to to bring it down to brass tacks- that neither is normal enough. All slightly creepy and disfunctional, don't you think?

Meg Ryan takes cuteness to the edge of annoying and Tom Hanks- with his inexpressive pudding of a face- is no Cary Grant.

But I enjoyed myself more than I would have done if I'd been watching the World Cup final.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I agree about it being irresponsible. Works of art that misrepresent human nature and the human condition are deeply immoral. They offer false hope, false expectations, false ideals.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

And yet the people making works of art are often fallible, unwise and misled themselves, and create art reflecting their confusion or their misunderstandings.

It's not malice. It's just lack of experience or introspection.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I accept that- broadly speaking.