Saw it on youtube cause i was bored and curious, then wound up loving it and watching the whole thing back (cause i began by just skipping scenes like it was a preview). Besides the obvious romantic and comedic charm, i even had a deeply personal experience with it. As someone from an Italian American family, the dialogue and family dynamic reawakened some of those memories. Ive always been cynical and have my own problems with that iconic ‘New York/Italian’ style of bravado and assertive dismissal, but the film gives it a lens of passion and character that let me internally discuss the psychology of it, namely in Cher. It’s funny to think that if i wasn’t raised millenial/online and distanced from the older generation’s style of living I’d probably be kinda like her character—the comedically antiromantic who doesnt show vulnerability outwardly but will then take actions that demonstrate it’s there. It just spreads a message of going with your feelings fearlessly so it hit me way more than what i expect from ‘mainstream’ romantic comedies (the genre i least gravitate to).

Im planning to get the criterion now and i never expected to lol