Waxing Lyrical
How about this way. I love that you get cold when it’s seventy-one degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night–and it’s not because I’m lonely and it’s not because it’s new year’s eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- When Harry Met Sally
It’s 3:24am and I’m all warm and fuzzy inside like I just ate a cat because I spent the last 4 hours watching old romantic comedies; laughing at their big hair, their sartorial choices, and the marvelous times when cellphones used to be as large as our forearm.
Also, I finally caught (500) Days of Summer and totally loved it, especially the non-linear story telling.
Rex Reed of The New York Observer wraps this one up quite nicely when he said:
“The great thing about this jump start on the dog-eared genre of unrequited love, one that doesn’t pan out the way you expect, is its refusal to traffic in clichés. Although the presumption that pretty women and smart, dashing young men can have it all and still want more is a bit naïve in this age of superficial achievement, this film has humor and warmth, thanks to the subtle, restrained and thoroughly engaging chemistry of its two stars, and character development that is good-natured at heart, and never dishonest. Nothing happens the way you have come to expect from Sandra Bullock movies. The film does not have a conventional Valentine’s Day finale, but although the girl exercises a woman’s prerogative and the boy is crushed, the way they adjust to fate, and move on, suggests the best in human decency and reluctant, postponed maturity…It leaves a lump in the throat of idealism interrupted. Coincidence is all there is. Just like real life, no?” (source)
