![]() Throughout the whole movie you see both characters reduce uncertainty though passive, active and physical interaction with one another. However, it was during this time that both Harry and Sally knew they loved one another on a deeper level than just friends. The viewer sees their relationship at this point as almost false because both characters are trying to hide their real feelings for one other to protect themselves from getting hurt.įinally their non-sexual relationship is broken (and although it did not end well after the first encounter), it forced both characters to close off and almost completely lose the friendship they had built. Due to previous relationships, both characters had been hurt and left vulnerable to heartache, forcing both Harry and Sally to be cautious and closed minded to the idea of two of them ever having anything more than being just close friends. Their relationship changed over time and they began to respect one another on all levels, love each other passionately, and also protect the other from pain.Īlthough it was years until the two characters ever became physical intimate with one another you can always tell there was something behind their actions of wanting to be “just friends”. The viewer can see how both characters begin to look at the other as their rock, their best friend and confidant. Over the next several years they build a bond though open lines of communication, sharing dreams, goals and aspirations, self-disclosing personal information that all leads to building a beautiful platonic relationship. Both characters had just ended a serious relationship with their significant other leaving them at an opportune time to make nice. However, it was the third meeting that something changed in both characters, maybe it was time, experience and changing of values to break their rigid cycle but none the less they decided to try once again to get to know one another. After their initial encounter traveling in the car from Chicago to New York, they bump into one another in the airport.īoth of them at very different stages of their lives since the first encounter yet they bump heads again and do not change their first impressions of one another drastically from the first time they met. As the movie continues, Harry and Sally run into one another sporadically over the next ten years and each time you see their relationship change and evolve. Sally on the other hand, sheltered and inexperienced, used only her knowledge that she had to make her judgments of Harry. Harry had dated a lot, he had been sexually active with a lot of women and chose to base his first impressions of Sally on this knowledge. Both of their first impressions were based upon their own previous experiences, values and beliefs. Sally objected and dismissed Harry of ever being a friend, although he was going to the only person she knew in New York City. On their trip they stopped at a diner for dinner, where Harry preceded to further establish Sally’s first impressions of him by making a pass at her and explaining his theory that men and women could never be platonic friends due a man’s sexual intentions with a women. ![]() Harry pegged Sally to be uptight, close-minded, sheltered and stuck up and Sally made the assumptions that Harry was crass, conceded with “unfaithful” tendencies. Their trip from Chicago to New York was a long and unproductive drive to help change their first impressions of one another. Sally immediately showed her colors by blaring the car horn and showing impatience. Sally drove up to find Harry engrossed in a passionate kiss with his girlfriend and kept her waiting while he said his final goodbyes. The first impressions the two characters, Harry and Sally, created of one another were established within moments of meeting, they both did not like the other party. In the movie When Harry Met Sally, their first impressions of one another summed up the fact that many times as humans we judge people without getting to know them. ![]() As humans we are rather quick at times dismiss someone and we never given them a second chance to prove our assumptions false. When Harry Met Sally First impressions are not everything and in many cases our first impressions of someone are quite wrong.
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