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„Serendipity“

„Serendipity“ is a compelling romantic comedy , written by Mark Klein and directed by Peter Chelsom in 2001. The story takes place in New York , where two people, Jonathan and Sara, are looking for love. They meet at a store, where they are both looking for a pair of black gloves. Unfortunatelly, there is only 1 pair left and they both claim them . Politely both of them ask the other one to have them and so they go to a small coffee shop called Serendipity to decide who gets the gloves over a cup of coffee.
Jonathan and Sara discover they have quite a bit incommon and fall in love. Sara insists they don’t exchange phone numbers or even names at first . She decides that as a fortunate accident, or in other words serendipity, brought them together in the first place, they should leave the rest in the hands of fate also. By cruel fate things don’t go as smooth as they were hoping and they break ways . However Sara had let Jonathan write his phone number on a five -dollar bill , which she used up at a near-by kiosk . She had also written her own name and number in a book, which she later sold to one of the thousands of book stores in New York.
Many years later, both Jonathan and Sara have moved on with their lives and are getting married. As Jonathan opens one of his wedding presents, he discoveres the same book, where Sara, Sara Thomas, had written her phone number. Jonathan then sets out to find the original love of his life, which turns out to be harder than expected , but also leads to one of the funniest scene in the film : Jonathan tries to get information a most unhelpful salesman in the same store, where it all got started . Sara, having also found the five-dollar bill with Jonathan Tragers phone number on it, flies to New York with her friend Eve, who just happens to get invited to Jonathans wedding by his soon-to-be wife.
The main characters in the film are Jonathan, who at first is sceptical about Sara’s beliefs as well as frustrated, and Sara, who believes in letting fate take its course . Jonathan Trager was played by John Cusack, a Blockbuster Entertainment Award winner for his role in „Con air“. Sara Thomas is played by the charming Kate Beckinsale, who also played in an Oscar winning movie „Pearl harbor “.
Personally I believe in fate since often things appear to be more than just mere coincidences. I found it to be one of the most enjoyable romantic comedies I’ve seen , however I did find it to be rather unrealistic or rather too good to be true. I do not agree , that it was a sickeningly sweet love story. It was still enjoyable. However I do agree on feelings and intuitions being important in our lives.