![]() |
[contains spoilers]
breezy,beautiful.
The film beautifully travels through a set of binaries. The binary of a relationship of love and of compromise,the binary of the personal and impersonal affairs in business deals,the binary of reading as a quest for knowledge and reading as a fanciful habit! These are implicitly presented,but for a sensitive viewer,they are major concerns which have been dealt with care. Nowadays chatting with a stranger anonymously, and forming a correspondence through letters/Mail is an ancient thing. The film is set in the time when Mail and online chatrooms were a new concept,and therefore exciting. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) runs her mother's bookstore which has the flavour of a quaint,dimly lit... |