Film analysis
When Harry met Sally When Harry met Sally is a romantic comedy which look into different point of view from men and women.
The film starts with Harry and Sally traveling to New York together from Chicago 19777. They talks about how men and women can ever Just be “friend”, and Harry and Sally had totally different thoughts about it.
Harry thinks men and women can never be Just “friend” because all the men does not want to be friends with attractive women, all men want is to have sex with attractive women. However, Sally believes that all men and women can Just be “friend” and share everything in their life. They never became friend after they get to New York because of different point of view.
The movie changed to several years later, Harry and Sally does not have a wonderful relationship with their own partners and they start to going out together Just like friend.
They start to realize how life had change their original thoughts and they can easily talk about anything even though they still have some disagreement. At the end of the movie, Harry and Sally are finally together, and ally understand how men and women can Just be friend and partners. Society normally views men are stronger in relationship, and men does not grief after break up or divorce. Men can easily recover from it and start moving forward.
When Harry divorced with his wife, he act Just like how society views a men and he start looking for women to have sex with.
He believes that this is the way to move forward. At this point, Sally does not agree with what Harry believes. She thinks the better way to for people to move forward is to improve themselves and she also believes that she had already moved forward. She start to take yoga classes to make herself a better person.
However, they both realized it is not as simple as they think. When Harry met his ex-wife, he pretend everything was fine and great, but it was not. He breaks down when he saw his best friends were talking about their furniture at home.
When Sally heard that Joe was going to get married, she started crying. She called Harry to come over to stay with her.
This shows that men and women will have totally different thought and reaction, but they all have the same emotions. Men and women do have different functions in relationship, but it does not mean men should always be the tough one and women should be the weak one. They should play their own role in a relationship, and make it much stronger to overcome the obstacles.
When they started to get to know each other, they realized how men and women think and behave differently. Harry thinks he can always make women satisfied in bed from men’s point of view, but Sally does not agree with him.
She says “It’s Just that all men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math. ” Harry thinks that men always control everything, UT he does not know that sometimes it was Just women who actually controls everything.
After Harry and Sally went on a date with different people, Harry was telling Sally how his date was horrible. He says “we’re sitting and we’re talking at this Ethiopians restaurant that she wanted to go to. And I was making Jokes, you know like, “Hey I didn’t know that they had food in Ethiopia? This will be a quick meal.
I’ll order two empty plates and we can leave. ” Yeah, nothing from her not even a smile. ” Harry was prejudice toward Ethiopia when he makes Joke about it, and both Harry and Sally gauged at the Joke.
Even though they were Just Joking and did not really mean it, but it is clearly that they both were prejudice toward Ethiopia. Society used to accept more of this thoughts, but this kind of prejudice toward anyone is not acceptable today. This movie portrays the functionalist’s point of view in our society.
It talks about how men and women play different role in our relationship, and even in our society. The society should break the gender norms and accept how men and women can play a different role. Also, everyone in our society should have less prejudice toward anyone.