as a reward for officially graduating grade 7 ballet
It's a strange movie i have to say
There was no real resolution, which i usually detest, but for this movie it made sense
Basically, the movie was
A British college student, Anna, falls for an American student, Jacob, in college in LA.
They make the usual impulsive love promises, and have walk along the beach, and go go carting, and read poetry, and give each other meaningful gifts.
And they have such a magnificent time together that when it's time for Anna to return to England, she doesn't.
She stays for another idyllic summer. But by doing that she overstays her visa
and is consequentially banned from reentering the US
And the rest of the movie mostly centers on how hard it is for them to be held away from each other
And how much harder it is for them to cross the Atlantic to see each to her because they know that they'll have to be wrenched away again soon, to avoid yet another visa overstaying scandal
And the entire starting and stopping gets to them
And they try to see other people and get on with their own lives
but they can't get over the feeling that they have a duty to each other
So eventually
after a lot of time and sorting out things at the immigration office
Anna gets the green light to return to America as Jacob's wife
And the last scene of the movie, is when they once again meet
and you realise that they have become almost strangers again,
all polite and nervous laughter and gentle hospitality
and you wonder if they'll ever be able to get back what they had
and if what they ha was worth fighting for
and if they were ever meant to be happy
because they were miserable apart
and they are guarded when they are together
"It is the halves that halve us in half"
was my favorite quote from the movie, and i felt like it described their entire relationship
neither here nor there, and therefore never completely perfect, and therefore painful to both of them
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