Love Has Its Own Way

You’re crazy about him?

Yes, I am...

Then, why don’t you run off with him? What are you waiting for?

I don’t really know him.

Really?

We are only knowing each other…… oh …… god …… you’re not going to believe this……

Let me guess …… from the internet?

Yes.

You’ve mail?

Yes.

Very powerful words?

Yes.

Love has its own way to show people itself. We are living in such an exciting age. Internet has offered us so many surprises. Even romance often blooms via it and such phenomenon is only seen in this email age.

Surfing on the net has been popular for a long time, so will net love. As the development of the society, both costs and risks in searching for love become higher and higher. On one hand people are thirsty for love; on the other hand people are afraid of the sense of insecurity brought by love. So the conflict comes out. Along with the populararization of the internet, people found there is a joint between internet and love. People satisfied with the desire of love and security on the net—net love.

“You’ve Got Mail” is an inviting love story that entangles a man (Hanks)—Joe Fox, a woman—Cathleen Kelly (Ms.Rayn), a couple of computers and a beautiful New York neighborhood. While some have doubted this film as Sleepless in Seattle in part 2, I think You’ve Got Mail has its own specialties and in many ways surpasses those of Sleepless. At least, the hero and heroine fall in love though the cold machines is more romantic then that though radio waves.

The premise of this film has been around for a while. Having two characters who can’t stand each other or some strangers in real life, only to intimate in another medium (such as the telephone or via letter writing). 1940’s The “Shop around the Conner” upon witch “You’ve Got Mail” was based had two coworkers who didn’t realize they were each other’s pen pal. Now, in 1998, comes You’ve Got Mail, an American online commercial disguised as a romantic comedy. The new film gives an additional new angle to this old story. The “Shop around the Conner” to this email age has plenty of creatiations and shows us how time has changed.

This approach on the romantic comedy has New Yorkers Kathleen and Joe corresponding via email. They share their secrets and talk about their favorite movies and books. The soon become soulmates. Word is a powerful tool of expressing one’s innermost. Poems and articles often make us feel moved and ponder deeply. Sometimes we even drop tears for the words that descript exactly what we are thinking about. Internet has offered us such a great opportunity that we community mostly with words. When strangers get to know each other they read each other’s opinion first. We can imagine how exciting Kathleen is when she realizes Joe is the one that can read her soul.    

There is a saying in China “the chance is that we fall in love with each one time in hundreds of years.” And now it is clear that the internet has advanced the probability of finding your Mr. or Miss Right. A person in Australia may have a net pal in England or even in South Pole. Nowadays it is not curious that people fall in love with each other via internet and finally get married. And most of those couples are impossible even to know each other before the email age. Joe and Kathleen have never connected with each other in real life, despite the fact that they live in the same neiborhood, buy their coffee in the same Starbucks and constantly pass each other in the streets. Unfortunately, even if they were to meet in the real life, their dramatically-opposed professional objectives would quickly negate any chance of a romantic relationship. Were not for the internet, there could be a pair of opponents not a couple.

“You’ve Got Mail” raises an interesting look in to the lives of millions of Americans who meet and correspond via email or instant massage. Whit out having personally met each other face-to-face after sharing deep thoughts for many months or more, most of them decide to meet each other. Personally, I think, fall in love whit someone via internet is something spiritual and emotional. It has little to do with your background, social position and appearance. It seems to be a theory that such affairs always end up with tragedy once the on-line lovers meeting personally in reality. Joe and Kathleen decide to meet in a cute café close to home. That is a big decision and can often be a “make or break it” opportunity. Of course we know who is who and the ironic relationship that has been blooming for months. But I still feel worried about the couple to be at first. Fortunately, they struggle a lot and finally come over all the difficulty: biases, hostilities and confrontations. They make it! It more or less encourages people who are in the similar relationship.

In essence, “You’ve Got Mail” certainly has the ingredients for a feel-good and lighthearted romantic comedy, and it has drummed up the American online a lot. The way of love it has offered is different from the traditional ones. If you do think it is really a kind of totally new experience to have a net lover, you yourself can try it.

Reference:  http://www.mediacircus.net/youvegotmail.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000F1UP/104-9156083-6047143?v=glance

 http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/cinema/rhemail.html

                                             lois CLASS 5

                                               December 25, 2004