I'm paying the price today for staying up late to watch one of my favorite movies, Serendipity. If you haven't seen it, or have dismissed it as a cheesey lightweight, let me tell you a little about why this film speaks to me.
Is finding true love really about anything other than fate and destiny? I don't think so. In the beginning of the movie, Jonathan and Sara meet for a short while but spend the next seven years thinking about each other and looking for "signs" that they belong together. Along the way, they find other partners that bring them to the brink of marriage before fate and something interior to them intervenes. One of the important messages of the film is that you can try with all your might to love back someone who loves you (romantically), but meeting your soulmate is one of the most powerful things that will ever happen to you in your lifetime.
I think Kate Beckinsale is gorgeous. I almost miss some of the dialog in the scenes she's in because of how distractingly pretty she is. OK, she's not the greatest actress, but her lightweightedness is sort of an asset in this film either by accident or good casting.
John Cusack. Guys want to be his bud. Women just want to take him home and make him feel better. He's sexy, smart, real, and sensitive without even trying. Just look into those sad eyes.
Though I've seen it a number of times, each time I watch I usually find myself worrying that something might go wrong this time, that fate will pass them by and they will miss the chance to find each other and true love.
The soundtrack is terrific too BTW.
SPOILER: Here's the final climactic scene where they meet again, at the place where it all began.
Hoity Toity
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I'm not a medium or anything, but I'm pretty sure I just heard my deceased
Grandma say "What the PHUCK?
8 years ago
1 comment:
First Comment, yeah me!
I love Kate Beckinsale too and she is on Kelly's Top Ten Most Yummy Girls list. I'll have to put this on my Netflx list.
As for soul mates, ah, a touchy subject with me. I met my soulmate, the only person I've ever met in my life who I would have dropped everything and married her on the spot. Sounds great, doesn't it? But it's not, not if it doesn't work out.
I would rather never fall totally in love like that and always wonder what it would be like than to have felt it and endured it all being taken away from me.
On a better note, I'm so glad you are blogging. It takes some time to get some readers but they come if you have something good to say. When I had my old blog, the first couple of months were pretty lonely but I gradually built up an audience and before long, I was averaging over 100 unique visitors a day. Alas, too many people that I used to work with knew about it and so I ditched it for something new. I've never been able to get that readership back and I hate that.
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