Sleepless in Seatle; Magic of the True Love (Movie Review)

The most interesting point in the movie, Sleepless in Seattle, is about the theme in which some might have different perspectives in understanding the movie. However, I prefer to put much attention on the belief in the myth of a true love in western culture. To begin, let me talk a little bit about it. This movie dramatically begins its story through the character of the hopeless Sam who has just lost his wife in death. After the death of his wife, Sam becomes workaholic guy in order to forget about the memories. It is worse compared to his son, Jonah, who does not seem to have such trauma as what Sam does. Here is how the story begins, Sam’s partner suggests him to take a free time somewhere in order to forget or at least to minimize the memories that just happen, and he firstly refuses this offer before he takes it because of his Son request. In short, they (Sam & his son) finally go and stay in Seattle, a place where he finally meets the girl named Annie (Sam’s obsessed girl). Actually, she wants to get married soon with another guy until finally she breaks up the relationship because of her belief in magic of a true love. She strongly believes that the magic that disturbs her mind would lead her to such true love in which she will find much happiness inside. In addition, This movie also indirectly implies Sam’s perspective about what a true love is. He says “ it was like coming home…. It was just a magic.” Here how we can find another view about spiritual image of love. It is really interesting since this film also shares western tradition in which people are getting more and more interested to share their problems whatever they are on the phone on that time. This tradition is soon adapted in our own culture.

I think this movie is made upon our real life, the day in which people tend to go somewhere in order to forget the problems. In the other hand, even though the culture is much changing from radio to the internet era but there is still the same shared values. In the past time when the film was made people would feel comfortable to express their feelings or emotions by sharing them to the other people through the media whatever it is. Now we are familiar with such media called facebook because we are now in the modern era. As what I mention previously that people are mostly trapped on the existence of the media, they tend to use it to express their feelings. There are still many people believe in the myth of the media itself. Why I do I call it myth? There are many people put much of their attention on the media, they believe to the people they never meet before.