Very bad and very weak. Absolutely unnecessary, superfluous, empty film, devoid of content almost completely. As is often the case with dramas, the plot here literally for 10 minutes, for a short film. Huge chunks of the film can simply be cut into a bucket, and the content will not suffer. The kid calls on the radio, gives up his
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Very bad and very weak. Absolutely unnecessary, superfluous, empty film, devoid of content almost completely. As is often the case with dramas, the plot here literally for 10 minutes, for a short film. Huge chunks of the film can simply be cut into a bucket, and the content will not suffer. The kid calls on the radio, gives up his father's problems, the woman listens, impresses, invites to meet, they meet. All. That's literally the whole content of the movie. All the conversations with the nouneim, all the side relationships, all the minor characters don’t work on the plot and do nothing in this film. They have no arches, no ideological monologues, no influence on the fate of the hero, on the final of the film. Tom Hanks' character says he still loves his late wife. Do I believe him? Of course not. He doesn't cry, he doesn't have tantrums, he doesn't have depression, he doesn't have illogical behavior, he only talks about loss, but from what we see, he just accepts the loss immediately and walks around with a stone face. I'll never believe that's what a man does when he loses the love of his life. He's ready to forget her for the occasional women on the radio. A radio station that spends hours discussing someone else’s private life throughout the state. Is there a radio like that? Will a man put everything before the people when he does not want to talk to his friends? His friend in the cafe and another friend on the couch - who are they? What role did they play? A boy has read ONE letter from a woman he hasn’t even seen and has already decided she will be his new mother. What's better than the one my father just found? The boy himself wanted to set his father up with someone, but immediately begins to interfere with the new relationship, because this woman is bad, but from the letter - a good one. How did he decide that? Meg Ryan's character flies to Seattle to see his fate, and what does that give the plot? She just flies back. It's a piece for the mounting bucket. She already has a fiancé, and what does that mean? Nothing! He just needs to be told to leave, and he leaves immediately, because he’s a junk character, an extra, and extras don’t fight for their love and significance in the plot. And even this dialogue itself was left behind. And that's literally every detail of the movie. Yes, I am somewhat biased towards drama, but this is precisely because of such empty and worthless films that trampled the very concept of drama. In a drama, there must be emotions, difficulties, solutions, characters must go through a certain development, each hero must exist for his small but specific task. And this and similar films do not have the right to be called dramas, they are just blanks. Scoring time between the initial and final credits. The wretched thing is that the authors didn’t even hide that they were just copying the ending of some other movie that was, you know, better.
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