Destined Love in Intertwined and Forked Narratives

Gregory 2022-03-25 09:01:10

In 1998, the film's narrative was enough to make a splash! But the love lines of Helen and Jerry and Helen and James alone are not compelling enough. Therefore, the highlight of the film only stays on the narrative technique. The plot is also developed according to the method of "What If", that is, if what should have happened at this moment in life does not happen, then life will have a different trajectory. But the director did not finish one "What If" and then proceeded to say another "What If", but intertwined two "interrogative sentences". This is where the innovative use of the structure comes in. However, the subtlety of the film is that both ways of fate lead to the same ending, which gives Helen and James's love a doomed romance.

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  • Scot 2021-12-31 08:02:34

    GP is very beautiful in it=v-If you are distracted, you will be dizzy when watching==!

  • Camila 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    The film explores an interesting topic for us: If something hadn't been missed, would it have ended better? In many cases, no matter how different the process is, the result is the same. Not a delicate but interesting enough film, I like the soundtrack of the film~

Sliding Doors quotes

  • Gerry: There's loads of them... having some sort of sponsored epileptic fit!

  • [Helen has broken up with her boyfriend]

    Helen: Bollocks to him. I'm over him.

    Anna: [skeptically] Oh. You're over him.

    Helen: Yes. Totally and utterly and completely over him.

    Anna: No you're not.

    Helen: I am.

    Anna: You're not.

    Helen: Anna, I'm over him! What do you mean I'm not? How do you know I'm not?

    Anna: Well, two things really. One, you're still counting how long you've been apart in days - and probably hours and minutes - but the big-flashing-red-light way of telling you're not really over someone is when you're still reading their horoscope in the hope that they're going to get wiped out in some freak napalming incident.

    Helen: Smartass!

    [tosses the paper at Anna]

    Anna: [opens the paper] What is he?

    Helen: A wanker.

    [pause]

    Helen: Oh. Aries.

    Anna: Aries... Aries... well, just shows how much I know.

    [reads]

    Anna: "With Mars your ruler in the ascendancy, you will get wiped out in a freak napalming incident and Helen says bollocks to you." This guy's very good.