Essay # 7 Singles (movie review)

Salomon Sanchez
November 27, 2009
Composition # 7, Draft # 1
SINGLES (movie review)
The movie "Singles" was released in 1992 directed by Cameron Crowe this movie
fallows the lives of several singles in Seattle, i liked this movie because I'm 20 years old
and i identify myself with experiences they crossed through, the principal caracteres are
Steve (Campbell SScott), who works for the Department of Transport, and deals with
trying to solve the deadlock on the highways. He is trying to push through his idea for a
supertrain, that will get people out or their cars and hence chear up the congestion on the
readways, Linda (Kyra Sedwick) who works for enviromental lobbyists, she loves control
in her life yet paradoxically wants to give it up and like her state of moral contradiction,
Cliff (Matt Dilon) is a grunge musician who is the antithesis of the perfect boyfriend and
Janet (Bridget Fonda) is the woman who lives upstairs and is in love with him. Debbie
(Sheila Kelley) is an advertising executive who has a free video-dating subscription to use
up to find the perfect man.
I really love a scene when Linda is singging and she just wanted to call Steve, so she
pick up the phone to call him, later on somebody pick up the phone in the other line and
she start telling him such of sexual phrases like I need you and some others, so the guy
who picked up the phone wasn't Steave , was another guy and he said something like," i
don't know where he is but I'll be right over"
The movie" Singles" deal with rituals of single life like, Who calls who first? How many
days do you wait before you call? Who acknowledges each phase of the relationship and
when? When do you let yourself go and when do you play cool? These are the questions
that the characters soul-search about. When Cliff doesn't show up at Janet's place one
lonely Saturday night, she begins to play emotional games in order to decide what to do
(if she sinks a basket, she'll call him... no, make it two out of three... and so on).
I recomend the movie "singles" because i think the movie has scenes in which we
can feel identify with them. Also this movie seems to be easy to understand and it has
important daily lenguage.