The "person you're married to" should also always be your "true love"? Even in U.S. culture not everybody believes that (for example I don't:-), and in other cultures it may be even less true.
It seems a lie to stay with someone he doesn't love (his wife), not to mention boring and dumb.
It never even occurs to lots of people to think this way. Maybe it doesn't make much sense to ask "why?" when the real question should be "huh?"
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NJ's re-investigation of his old love surfaced the same problems again (her sometimes over-wrought emotional reactions, her preference he be a well off engineer even when that ignored his desires), suggesting the relationship wouldn't have worked long-term despite their "love".
Also there are now kids in the picture. If parents got divorced and married every time "love" dictated, it could be terribly hard on the kids.
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tastysnack
13 years ago
I found the relationship between NJ and Sherry the most touching and tragic storyline in the film. Unrequited love or love between two people that does not come together for whatever reason is always sad, but especially when dealt with in such a real and human way in this film.
I think when NJ knocks on Sherry's door to tell her that he had never loved anyone else, she was distraught that theirs was a love that could have been but can never be. For all these years, he had lived a life with a wife he never loved, started a family, even though all along he still loved Sherry. I think at that point, Sherry knew that life was complicated, their lives were complicated and that anything between them would never happen.
I am very much interested in what you guys think?
Sidenote: I remember the scene when Sherry knocks on NJ's door straight after he went back to his hotel room and she comes in, explaining how she had made mistakes before and how she USED to be 'insecure'. That just stuck with me because I thought to myself, 'C'mon Sherry, your a mad woman! Could you be more neurotic'. (Very attractive actress though!).
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