Monday, April 04, 2005
Yes, I am here blogging again. Just watched Serendipity and have the urge to write about it. It was an old show released in 2001. I must have missed it due to National Service. It is a nice and romantic film. Better than Turn Left Turn Right in the way the film is being directed and the chemistry between the two leads. Though they have only less than 20 mins being together in the film, you can sense that just how much the characters played by John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale wanted to find each other. Serendipity means: "The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident". How appropriate a word for this film.
The plot of this film goes like this.
Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn't sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together... Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can't forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.
Catch the film to know the ending. Nice soundtrack to the film. The dialouge is witty and the directing is fast and not draggy. One of my favourite dialouge is: "Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. Uh-uh. But rather, its a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan. If we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum", what we currently refer to as destiny." Kinda perk me up after the nightmare that I had earlier in the day.
You can take a picture of something you see. In the future where will I be?
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