Wicker Park

Last night we rented a movie. "Wicker Park". What a good flick. A little sad- but a good ending. I often wonder how many times it happens in our lives that we miss out on something because of timing...

The part where he misses her phone call because he was in the shower.
Or when he doesn't see her at the airport because he was stretching his fingers through a drain trying to retrieve the key to her apartment.

How easily one person can twist a situation to ruin lives.
When you just can't do what you know you should do, because of a "feeling".
Fate? Intuition? Sixth Sense?
He couldn't go to China. He couldn't get married. He had to find her. He had a feeling she had been there, in that place. He could smell her.

Forshadowing. I love when a movie starts out forshadowing.
The first scene, he is trying to pick out a ring.

Jeweler..."that one is beautiful"
Matthew... "so are the others"
Jeweler..."and yet you can not choose with your eyes"

All throughout the movie, Matthew is trying to find his lost love, Lisa, that seemingly walks out of his life. For two years he trys to move on. He even gets engaged. But when he is supposed to get on a plane and go to China for a business meeting, he lies to his fiance and stays in town with a friend. Why? Because of a nagging incident where he thinks he spots Lisa in a restaurant.
He finds and follows the clues.

***WARNING, THIS IS THE ENDING***
At the end, in the airport, he finally finds her. He starts shifting his body through the crowd when his fiance steps in his path. He has to make a decision. He trys not to take his eyes off Lisa, but has to. (see the forshadowing?)
He breaks up with his fiance (as nice as he could). He looks once again for his love. At first he can't locate her, but then...there she is, bending down, on the phone learning of all that has happened and why. She turns around and there he is waiting for her. Now she has found him.

Everybody... OOhhh

I'm such a romantic.