Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Lauren Potts Post-5 When Harry Met Sally 1989 Dir Rob Reiner


When Harry Met Sally 1989

Director: Rob Reiner

Lauren Potts

I finally saw it

                It was a long time coming, but I finally saw the infamous diner scene in its entirety.    When Harry Met Sally, is a romantic comedy about two people who bump into each other thought-out their lives.  From the romantic-comedy aspect this movies deals with the relationship that men and women share, but it also shows that finding your “true love” might take 12 years but it is worth the wait.
                I would say this is the college version of Say Anything, their plots are different, but the bases of the story are the same: guy meets girl, guy falls in love with girl, and they fall in love.  Harry meets sally after they graduate from college.  They carpool to New York to start their lives, and bump into each other over the next 12 years.  When Harry first meets Sally I thought he immediately liked her but was to macho to admit.     Somewhere in those twelve years they become friends and their friendship evolves into a relationship sort of…   After a big fight the two calls it quits.  In say Anything  Lloyd is on the chase to win back Diane’s heart , this is the same for Harry is on a chase well running in New York to win back Sally.I that the men are fighting to win the girls heart, chivalry is not dead after all at least back in 1989.  In an interesting way both men profess their love and the women kind of give the same speech, Sally repeats “I hate you” and Diane say “I need You” both showing their vulnerability.
                In watching the iconic diner scene there many different shots used.  It started out as an over-the-shoulder shot to a two-shot, then jumps to a close up of Sally’s face and back to an over-the-shoulder-shot, and it repeats the order until the scene ends.  There were a few cutaways too, mostly of older people talking about relationships and when they fell in love.  Showing how relationships evolve over time.     In the ending it ends with them kissing then of a voice over of them talking, then a shot of them talking about their weeding three months later after that cuts to black. 
                Yes it is a chick flick and I must say I liked it. It was a cute movie.    You can never go wrong with a simple love story.   It can teach you a thing or two.  I learned to say how I feel to people whether than holding it in, even if is sappy you can’t hide how you feel about a person.

  

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