Sleepless in Seattle & You've Got Mail
It's a real trip to be looking at these 2 iconic Meg and Tom flicks, I shall surely be adding When Harry Met Sally when I can, for that plays an even stronger nostalgic purpose, the motif in that of couples of varying ages talking on camera seated on a sofa facing the camera was a much loved part from mom, and we'd joke around referencing it.
As for Sleepless in Seattle, it was a movie fave of a friend of the family who was such a rare friend for my folks, as she had a different faith than a mainstream Protestant kind. She was the most nice lady who had a husband who was in a band called The Three Musguitars, one of the guitarists was famous Sia Samimi, and there was an album of his that I quite liked the music in, I shared space with such a person before!! Well it was care of mom's rare friendship that such people came into our lives. And she didn't place much value in movies, I had tried to share some arthouse films with her, but she couldn't place as much importance in this medium as she did with books which delved deep into Eastern philosophy and comparative religion, this was the specialty of her husband. My introduction to Taoism came from this lady too. Well the kind of movie she liked was Sleepless in Seattle and the Harry and Sally one.
You've Got Mail was no different for our cultured friend, and it is such a neat time capsule, remembering the innocent early days of the internet. However as I browsed Letterboxd reviews of these, people pick up on ethical quandaries within them, namely the extra-marital element, which to an evangelical mindset pictures the eroding of family values, and yet in the most congenial cozy sort of way, as to how they look, and how things are generally nice that is story wise going on, and with a little bit of dramatic tension is resolved for the most part with smiles and feelings of warmth prevailing.
Movies that are like home cooked hot crossed buns, that is how I see these ones.
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As for Sleepless in Seattle, it was a movie fave of a friend of the family who was such a rare friend for my folks, as she had a different faith than a mainstream Protestant kind. She was the most nice lady who had a husband who was in a band called The Three Musguitars, one of the guitarists was famous Sia Samimi, and there was an album of his that I quite liked the music in, I shared space with such a person before!! Well it was care of mom's rare friendship that such people came into our lives. And she didn't place much value in movies, I had tried to share some arthouse films with her, but she couldn't place as much importance in this medium as she did with books which delved deep into Eastern philosophy and comparative religion, this was the specialty of her husband. My introduction to Taoism came from this lady too. Well the kind of movie she liked was Sleepless in Seattle and the Harry and Sally one.
You've Got Mail was no different for our cultured friend, and it is such a neat time capsule, remembering the innocent early days of the internet. However as I browsed Letterboxd reviews of these, people pick up on ethical quandaries within them, namely the extra-marital element, which to an evangelical mindset pictures the eroding of family values, and yet in the most congenial cozy sort of way, as to how they look, and how things are generally nice that is story wise going on, and with a little bit of dramatic tension is resolved for the most part with smiles and feelings of warmth prevailing.
Movies that are like home cooked hot crossed buns, that is how I see these ones.
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46-50, M
