Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow is a long, dark-haired Brit. One day, after losing her job as an advertising executive, she decides to return home in the middle of the day. The scene of the pivotal moment is a train platform. In scenario #1, she just slips through the sliding doors before the train pulls out of the station. On board, she meets the cheerful, talkative James (John Hannah), a Monty Python fan who is taken with her beauty. Minutes later, in her flat, she walks in on her lover, Gerry (John Lynch), in bed with another woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn).
In scenario #2, she misses the train and, shortly thereafter, is the victim of an attempted mugging. She doesn't meet James and fails to make it home in time to discover Gerry's infidelity. Juxtaposed one against the other, while sharing many places, cues, and characters, the two stories proceed in parallel from there. In scenario #1, Helen eventually sets up a successful PR business and in the scenario #2, she remains leading a depressing life as a waitress still unaware of her boyfriend's infidelity.
have u watched this movie? if u havent i think u should. not the best movie ever made but gives alot of food for thought.
hullo duck.
i still maintain that i dont always ponder over the what-ifs and could-haves. waster of precious time, i think.
but on an afternoon such as this, and in the numbskull such as mine, those best-left-unanswered questions are revolving around. i havent really found myself in many forks- in- the- road kind of situations but i guess there have been a couple of pseudo-forks. the situations in which the decision at hand was somewhat easily made but, in retrospect, were the sort of decisions that kinda changed that particular course that u were supposed to take. but at that moment of decision-making, u were blissfully unaware that the consequences had some gravity. or brevity. watever.
i am tempted to mention the pseudo forks but then i might as well tell u the colour of my underwear.
posted R @ 10:32 pm
