Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Harry looks on the negative side of things almost as often as he focuses on shallow distractions. Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. He did wind up married for a while, and wanted something permanent, but then assumes that because it went south for him, everyone else’s relationship is also doomed to failure. Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.Harry and Sally have known each.
He’s somewhat negative, cynical, and detached but he still gets sucked into people and feels somewhat responsible to them. He is in denial about Sally for over ten years, insisting that he doesn’t love her, and it’s only when he screws up their relationship by likening her to a ‘dog’ (because she attaches to him and wants love) and has to be without her for a few months that he realizes how much he genuinely cares about her, and decides to settle down and get married after all. Harry spends his entire life being cynical about people and relationships (they are all doomed to failure) while engaging in empty distractions like countless hookups he admits that he feels nothing for most of the women he sleeps with, but he sleeps with them anyway, and then doesn’t want to stick around, be in a relationship, or have any kind of a commitment – he’s thinking about how quickly he can get dressed and hurry away. He only realizes that he’s in love with Sally after they’ve broken up for a time, and that causes him to do introspection and realize he wants to marry her immediately, because “when you decide you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want to start it as soon as possible.” Harry shows low Si in that he assumes his own experiences are going to be universal for other people, that everything always follows a human pattern (men and women together, relationships, divorce proceedings, etc). He thinks she is too emotional and inclined to get involved, whereas he thinks about things and comes at it from a more detached perspective, which includes not having a clue about his own feelings. He reverses his own thinking about Sally several times (they can’t be friends they can be friends he isn’t attracted to her he is attracted to her he doesn’t want a commitment he does want a commitment…). He says men and women can’t be friends, that never works out, and gives her a long-winded explanation about why (it boils down to all men are either wanting to sleep with the girls they are friends with because they are attracted to them, or not attracted to them and still wanting to sleep with them). It takes him a very short amount of time to look at something from the complete opposite perspective, such as arguing with Sally about one thing, only to realize a few hours later that she’s attractive and invite her to spend the night. ‘Perfect’ is a big word to use about any film, but in this case no other will do.Harry is something of a philosopher and a cynic, who participates in life as much as he grouses about it, and who is opportunistic. It’s that she does so while circumventing romantic clichés left and right, creating unforgettably loveable characters and throwing in some of the most fluid, insightful and witty set-piece conversations ever written (the diner orgasm is the most famous, but it’s the tip of a very large iceberg). But, as the film insistently, infamously asks, can men and women ever really be just friends? It’s not just that Ephron poses these kinds of obvious-but-important questions. As the years pass the random meetings pile up, and dislike turns to reluctant friendship. The story is simple: Crystal and Ryan meet after college, and loathe one another on sight. And it’s all rooted in that flawless script. This is a film where everything works: Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan’s just-this-side-of-smug central couple, the gorgeous photography of New York through the changing seasons, even Harry Connick Jr’s jazz-lite soundtrack. (written by) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld.
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Too often dismissed as the bland, cutesy, cakey-bakey face of the modern romcom, the late Nora Ephron was an unacknowledged genius when it came to screenplay construction – and ‘When Harry Met Sally’ remains her finest work. (1989) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Rob Reiner Writing Credits ( WGA) Nora Ephron.
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