Wednesday 17 February 2016

Thursday Movie Picks: Valentine's Edition: Movies with Memorable Declarations of Love


Hello you and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.

For this 3rd Valentine's Edition week, we are dealing with memorable declarations of love. Without further ado, let's get started!

Before Sunset (2004)

Nine years after Vienna, Jesse and Celine meet again in Paris. Much like their previous encounter, they decide to spend time together until Jesse is supposed to catch his flight back to New York. Just before he leaves, Celine sings, "Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain ... I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day ... Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die.". If this one isn't memorable, I don't know what it is.

Released from a psychiatric hospital, Pat is determined to win back his wife, and recently widowed Tiffany offers to help him. Eventually they turn out to be what each other need, although Tiffany realizes it first. At the end Pat finally tells her, "I love you. I knew it the minute I met you. I'm sorry it took so long for me to catch up. I just got stuck.". The perfect end to a brilliant film.

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Harry and Sally first meet in Chicago and spend 18 hours together in a car headed to New York. They don't quite hit off, but over the next 10 years they occasionally meet and soon become friends. Inevitably the two end up sleeping together. Confused, Harry tries to break away, and only after some soul-searching he runs to find Sally on New Year's Eve and delivers a hell of a declaration. "I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is I love you." he says, "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

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