Serendipity

Serendipity

- Directed by Peter Chelsom (Who made Hannah Montana: The Movie - which I have not watched, by the way)

- Written by Marc Klein (Who wrote Suburban Girl and A Good Year - I have not seen any of them either)

- Starring John Cusack and Katherin Beckinsale

So what is the definition of the word serendipity? Well according to the movie, it is an unexpected fortunate event. Well, after the main character Sara says this word about five minutes into the movie, the mood and the structure of the movie is set on this one word (and all the word related to serendipity such as faith and destiny).

Just a side note, surprisingly this movie itself was my serendipitous find! Recently, whenever I tell people that I am a movie fanatic and that I love slow paced movies with deep meanings placed in the life at the city, people have been recommending me Serendipity. And, whenever I looked up people's "favorite movie" list on their facebook, I kept running into this movie. Slightly off track from the review, but I thought it is quiet interesting how I ran into Serendipity in first place.

Anyhow, the movie is just all about feng shui and destiny. Is it likely that anything like that - from finding a perfect person while buying a cashmere gloves to finding out that your mysterious lover's wedding is cancelled the day that you go half across the country to find him- will happen to a normal person? Well NO. But I think the movie is really trying to tell all the sappy, hopeful girls and guys out there that we are just not searching enough for our passionate love. Sometimes, to truly fall in love, we have to trust our insane but sometimes accurate instincts and follow "the signs", whatever it maybe or how stupid it will look.

So, here's the deal with this movie: if you are looking for a sappy romantic movie for the fall, so you can get some motivation to find that perfect love for Christmas, then yes, definitely go for it. However, this movie does not contain any deeper meaning than go out there and search for the one is destined to be with you. It definitely does not contain deeper meanings about love like in Love Actually or Howl's Moving Castle (yes, two very different movies, I know). However, this movie will linger in your mind just because whenever something odd happens once or twice with someone- whether it be meeting your high school buddy in New York City one spring break or constantly running into a same guy at the gym - you will think of this movie and ask youself if this is the serendipitous moment in your life that you're supposed to hold on to.