When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
I first saw this movie back in 1989 when it was in the theaters. I was taking a summer class about movies back then, and one of the assignments was to write a term paper about a current movie. I narrowed it down to either this movie or
Dead Poets Society, but I decided to write about this movie because I knew that I would have to see the movie multiple times, and
Dead Poets Society was too depressing to watch several times over a short period of time.
I saw it about a dozen times within a few months, and it just got better each time I watched it. I fell in love with the movie, the characters, and the music. After watching it again tonight, I still love it as much as I did back then.
I love that the relationship between Harry and Sally feels real. They start out just getting to know each other, but then they go their separate ways. When they meet up again five years later, they still don't get along. But the third time is a charm, and that's when they become friends. They talk, they argue, and they even talk about their dates with other people, but they don't date each other. But as a viewer, from the outside looking in, we know that they belong together. They just haven't figured it out yet.
There are so many things that I love about this movie that I don't even know where to start. I can relate to Harry reading the last page of the book first, but I also love the way Sally orders food in a restaurant because I order food the same way. (Yes, I know that it's annoying, but I want what I want the way I want it.
) I like the wagon wheel coffee table that Jess and Marie fight about. I love Harry's speech to Sally at the party at the end of the movie.
This is not a "laugh-a-minute" movie, but it has some very funny dialog, especially some of the scenes with Harry and Jess, which I think get easily overlooked in this movie. ("
You made a woman meow?", "
Oh, but "baby fish mouth" is sweeping the nation?"
)
I also love the music in the movie. The songs feel like they were written for the movie because the lyrics fit perfectly. And as a bonus, the soundtrack made me a fan of Harry Connick Jr.