This is what ruined the movie for me
After looking up Sleepless in Seattle, I saw that it held positive reviews and was a popular romance movie. I'm a young gay male and I love a good chick flick. There were a lot of things to enjoy about this movie: Megan Ryan was charming, Tom Hanks good as always, Rosie O'Donnell was in her prime in the 90s, etc. But I could not get past how unrealistic this movie was. One user review on IMDb said the following:
The movie's plot starts to stretch plausibility at the end, but not to the point where it destroys the entire film.
I have to disagree with that user because I could not get past the idea that Meg Ryan would break off her engagement with a kind, successful, mostly flawless man in search of "magic" that she might find in some guy who lives across the country that she heard on a radio show.
Is it possible that Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks would end up falling in love and live happily ever after? Yes, but that's an incredible risk to take on a man in Seattle she knows nothing about. I suppose there are a couple of ways to interpret this movie. If things did't work out for Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks after the movie ends, and you don't simply denounce Meg Ryan as a fool for breaking off her engagement, then maybe you could argue that it would be better for her to be alone than to be with someone she has to settle for. But should we really spend our whole lives chasing "magic"? In my view, Meg Ryan's character broke off her engagement with a really good man in search for an angel. Her fiance made her happy, but not happy enough.
Though most of us long to find a lover to spend our lives with, do you believe we search and search and not stop until we find the one who makes us feel "magic"? Or should we learn to set realistic expectations and just take the best of what life gives us? share