After saving a man from a horrible accident, a hopeless romantic woman falls in love with his brother.
Funny and romantic, and that’s all you need to know. You’ll probably know by now that I’m not into romantic films. Still, even I make exceptions occasionally for films that do not insult human intelligence and offer nothing but smiles and entertainment during this festive time. While You Were Sleeping is one of them and one that I watched as a kid back then. In a time when the Internet was not even a known word, films were one of the ways I got to discover the world and foreign cultures. The American way, cinematically at least, was, is, and always will be appealing to the human eye and soul – especially in this genre. This merely means, though, that American cinema, in and outside Hollywood, cannot be brutal, gritty, and realistic. That is another story for another time, though. I feel like digressing…
After Speed (1994), Sandra Bullock became a romance queen and one of America’s sweethearts with many roles like this (and later on a lot more than that). Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebrow wrote a tight script, and director Jon Turteltaub made a comedy/romance with plenty of delay of resolution that will keep you till the very end waiting for the tables to turn. The film paces beautifully and leads to the outcome that brings that tear of joy to your eyes. It’s a beautiful film about the most beautiful feeling n the world; love. We couldn’t live without it, even if we knew that one day, someone would take it away from us. Failure to experience it hurts infinitely more than the pain it causes. Like most Christmas films, its message is to constantly seek it, for it can be found in the most unlikely places. And in the most unlikely people, who, like us, are looking for it to become whole.
P.S. Bill Pullman hasn’t stopped surprising us with the projection of his internal bittersweet darkness, like Bullock, to this very day. Amazing actors through and through!
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