When Harry Met Sally...
This is the quintessential romcom, written by Nora Ephron even. Harry is such a jerk for so long, I don’t see what Sally sees in him. That’s the hardest thing to suspend disbelief over.
Like most popular films, it has to be about itself. Casablanca is part of the plot.
There’s the now (in)famous scene in the deli with the fake orgasm, right in the middle of the film, but also that shot of Harry passing the cube Kleenex box, that’s also a meme-tastic moment.
The crew of this is even more talented than the cast. Rob “All in the Family/The Princess Bride” Reiner directing, Nora Ephron writing, and Barry “Men in Black” Sonnenfeld as director of photography.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.