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Sam, despondent after losing his wife, leaves for Seattle with his son Jonah to make up his mind in a new place. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, Annie visits her family home on Christmas Eve and introduces her fiancé Walter to her family. The two have a great time with everyone’s blessings, but on the car ride home, Annie accidentally listens to a radio broadcast that provides advice on listeners’ concerns. After hearing the touching stories of Sam, who reluctantly shares his true feelings with Jonah, who wants to find a stepmother for her struggling father, Annie intuits that Sam is the counterpart of her own destiny. As Annie develops her feelings for Sam on her own, she eventually goes to Seattle to look for Sam, but she mistakes Sam’s sister for her new girlfriend and she kills him right in front of her. Turn around and leave. However, Jonah, who liked Annie after reading the letter she sent, persuades Sam to go to the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York and meet Annie, as Annie suggested in the letter. When Sam, who is seeing another woman, does not respond, he goes alone to see Annie. He leaves for New York to meet. Sam, who belatedly realizes this and follows Jonah, reunites with Annie at the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
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<해리가 샐리를 만났을 때>Nora Ephron, who had asked the universal question, ‘Can men and women be friends?’ <시애틀의 잠 못 이루는 밤>In , he writes and directs and talks about ‘fated love.’ The director hid many foreshadowings throughout the film as a device to support this claim. The scene where Annie tries on her grandmother’s wedding dress given to her by her mother and her dress tears, foreshadows the breakup of her relationship with Walter, while also guessing in advance what Sam, who is connected to the radio broadcast, is going to say. . There is also a scene where Sam, who is seeing off her girlfriend, happens to see Annie at the airport and falls in love with her at first sight. Like any other romantic comedy, the plot is cliché and the subject matter is far from realistic, but the unrealistic love between a woman who leaves her perfect engagement to find her fateful love and an innocent man who cannot forget his wife who passed away is unrealistic. Rather, it brings a warm feeling to the hearts of viewers.
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As you watch this movie, you will naturally <해리가 샐리를 만났을 때>comes to mind. Both films are written by Nora Ephron and feature Meg Ryan as the female lead. Not only this <해리가 샐리를 만났을 때>Director Rob Reiner appears in this film as a close colleague of the main character, Sam. The female protagonist is a reporter in both works, and breaks up with her boyfriend, whom she had decided to marry before meeting the male protagonist. The male protagonist also lives longing for his ex-wife after breaking up with her. Moreover, the season in which the movie is set is winter, and both the male and female protagonists meet by chance at the airport. The characters <카사블랑카>me <러브 어페어>Another thing they have in common is watching and talking about classic melodramas such as .
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Nora Ephron, born in 1941 and died in 2012, was a representative Hollywood film director and writer. She was born to Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron, who were leading romantic comedy screenwriters of the 1950s. Nora Ephron, who decided to become a writer early on due to the influence of her parents, graduated from Wellesley College, worked as a reporter for the New York Post, and then as editor-in-chief of the New York Times. She published numerous essays and novels, gaining a reputation as a best-selling author. It piled up. The name Nora Ephron became known around the world through the movie ‘When Harry Met Sally’, which became a classic romantic comedy. The film, starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, catapulted Efron to the ranks of Hollywood’s greatest screenwriters and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Afterwards, Efron began directing on his own, directing films such as ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘You’ve Got Mail’, establishing a firm position in Hollywood, where there are not many female directors.
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