You know how there are certain movies that you can watch over and over again? For me and almost anyone I know that has seen Sliding Doors feels that this is one of those movies.
(I just finished watching it, if you guessed that’s why I’m writing this post)
Sliding Doors is a movie of “what ifs”, which is a game everyone has played with themselves at least once or a thousand times in their lives. “What if” I hadn’t gone to the club that night, “what if” I had taken a left turn instead of a right.
The movie takes “what if” to a whole new level; it plays the movie with both scenarios happening simultaneously. Helen, played quite brilliantly by Gwyneth Paltrow (I say brilliantly because it takes place in London and brilliant is a smashing word they use, which I love, which leads me to my next thought, with all the amazing or brilliant talent there is in the UK, why did they pick an American access for the lead? Not that she wasn’t, as I said, brilliant. There was one other American, Jeanne Tripplethorne, but she played an American, hmmm).
Helen is sacked from her job (ok, slight spoiler alert) and her story or stories hinge(s) on whether or not she catches the train home, we see what happens when she does and when she doesn’t. This is also where the real story begins. It also leads to the thought or question, if something is meant to be, will it or should it?
We see the parallel lives which could very well happen, whether or not certain events occurred after the train. And we also wonder if the people we meet, would we still meet them if we had gone that way?
I like to think, for somethings…If it’s is meant to be, it will be.
Peaches Prattlings 