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Monday, June 19, 2006
The Lake House
I went to see the Lake House starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock last night. It’s probably considered a chick flick, but it’s not your typical chick flick. The Lake House is one of the most genuinely romantic movies I’ve seen in a long long time. A story of love that knows no boundaries, not even the boundaries of time. A love that believes if it is meant to be, it will happen somehow, someday when the timing is right. A story of love that makes even the most cynical singles believe.
A movie that believes in the notion of true romance is rare these days. But the Lake House in a very uncorny fashion brings back romance from the past in the ageless era of letter writing. You remember letter writing. It was what people did before email.
In this day and age I don’t know how I would manage without being able to check my email constantly, but I am old enough to have lived in a time before email existed. Somewhere tucked away in my cedar chest are bundles of letters from a young man that used to write to me. He lived in Northern California and our families vacationed at the same California Central Coast beach where we became friends. He wrote to me for several years. And even though we spent a couple summer vacations together, our friendship survived through our letters. Letters that spanned my late teens and into my early 20’s and made me believe in romance.
At one point in the movie, Sandra Bullock’s character asks her mother if she and her father ever wrote letters to each other. Her mother tells her that she wrote letters to a boy she loved before her father.
“Why didn’t you marry him?” Sandra Bullock’s character asks.
“So that one day you could ask me this question.” Her mother replied.
Email is great, but there is nothing like receiving a letter from someone in the mail. The handwriting comes alive on the page as you’re reading the letter and connects you to the person who wrote the words. And while email exists somewhere between Heaven and Hell in a world called Cyberspace, a letter you can hold in your hand, carry with you, read over and over again and treasure always. Letters become part of our history the way emails haven’t because our sentimental hearts save them, bundle them up and tie ribbon around them. Emails on the other hand have become shortened bits of conversation among the thousands saved in our inbox.
Love is alive in the letters between Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock’s characters in the Lake House, and so is the chemistry. In one of the most romantic movies ever, the Lake House makes you believe that love does conquer all, even time.
In this day and age, it’s nice to be reminded about romance and love…
Oh, and did I mention that Keanu looks really HOT!
I went to see the Lake House starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock last night. It’s probably considered a chick flick, but it’s not your typical chick flick. The Lake House is one of the most genuinely romantic movies I’ve seen in a long long time. A story of love that knows no boundaries, not even the boundaries of time. A love that believes if it is meant to be, it will happen somehow, someday when the timing is right. A story of love that makes even the most cynical singles believe.
A movie that believes in the notion of true romance is rare these days. But the Lake House in a very uncorny fashion brings back romance from the past in the ageless era of letter writing. You remember letter writing. It was what people did before email.
In this day and age I don’t know how I would manage without being able to check my email constantly, but I am old enough to have lived in a time before email existed. Somewhere tucked away in my cedar chest are bundles of letters from a young man that used to write to me. He lived in Northern California and our families vacationed at the same California Central Coast beach where we became friends. He wrote to me for several years. And even though we spent a couple summer vacations together, our friendship survived through our letters. Letters that spanned my late teens and into my early 20’s and made me believe in romance.
At one point in the movie, Sandra Bullock’s character asks her mother if she and her father ever wrote letters to each other. Her mother tells her that she wrote letters to a boy she loved before her father.
“Why didn’t you marry him?” Sandra Bullock’s character asks.
“So that one day you could ask me this question.” Her mother replied.
Email is great, but there is nothing like receiving a letter from someone in the mail. The handwriting comes alive on the page as you’re reading the letter and connects you to the person who wrote the words. And while email exists somewhere between Heaven and Hell in a world called Cyberspace, a letter you can hold in your hand, carry with you, read over and over again and treasure always. Letters become part of our history the way emails haven’t because our sentimental hearts save them, bundle them up and tie ribbon around them. Emails on the other hand have become shortened bits of conversation among the thousands saved in our inbox.
Love is alive in the letters between Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock’s characters in the Lake House, and so is the chemistry. In one of the most romantic movies ever, the Lake House makes you believe that love does conquer all, even time.
In this day and age, it’s nice to be reminded about romance and love…
Oh, and did I mention that Keanu looks really HOT!
I was debating whether or not to see this movie.. I think you've got me sold!
If you're in the mood fro something offbeat and funny, Nacho Libre was a pretty good movie, too..
Heather just sold me on Nacho Libre!!
Getting real mail rocks. I get a lot of CDs and books in the mail. It's a joy to open them. Sometimes local bands leave their CDs in my mailbox. They have no idea how much that makes my day!
i wanna see this movie even more now...