SERENDIPITY

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: SERENDIPITY - Destiny..with a sense of humour.

- Where did you find this place?

- I first came in because of the name.               

- Hmm.

- Serendipity. It's one of my favorite words.

- It is? Why?

- Uh-huh. 'Cause it's such a nice sound for what it means: a fortunate accident.

Except I don't really believe in accidents.

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- I think fate's behind everything.

- Oh, you do?

                 
- Yeah.

- Fate's behind everything?

- I think so.

- Everything's predestined?

- We don't have any choice at all?

- I think we make our own decisions. I just think that fate sends us little signs,

and it's how we read the signs that determines whether we're happy or not.

- Little signals. Yeah.

- Yeah. Fortunate accidents. Lucky discoveries. Columbus in America.

- Yeah, or Fleming discovering penicillin. - Penicillin.

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I just had a great time, and I'd never be able to find you again.

Well, if we're meant to meet again, then we'll meet again. It's just not
the right time now.

Maybe we were supposed to meet on British time and we're five hours too early.

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Is there anything else you need to know about me?

Huh. Favorite sexual position?

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It's the curse of the English, I'm afraid. Fair skin and bad teeth.

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Let fate take its proper course.

Oh!

- That was an accident. Write down that again, please.

- I can't. That was a sign. Fate's telling us to back off. Let fate take its proper course.

- If fate didn't want us to be together, then why did we meet tonight, huh?

- Gotcha.

- Well, I don't know. But it's not an exact science. It's a feeling.

- Well, what if you're wrong? Huh? What if it's all in our hands and we just walk away?
No names, no phone numbers, nothing. What do you think's gonna happen?
Do you think good old fate is just gonna deliver my information...

- right to your doorstep?

- Do you know that's the best idea you're had all night?

- What's the best--

- Here you go. Write your name and number down.

- On a $5  bill?

- Mm. Just do it.

- You are a strange and interesting woman. Now what?

-Wait there.

- Hey! What the hell was that?

- When that $5  bill makes it back into my hands, I'll be able to call you.
And when you hear my voice on the other end, then you'll believe
in fate, won't you?

- Hey, what about me?

- What do you mean?

- Well, we have to send something out in the universe
with your name on it, don't we?

- Come on. Isn't that the only fair thing?

- That is the only fair thing.

- That's a lot of tuba.

- Okay, see this book?

- Yeah.

- Okay, so when I get home tonight, I'm gonna write my name
and number inside this book. And then first thing tomorrow morning, I'll sell it
to a used book store.

- Which one? You're not gonna tell me. Why not?

- Well, now, every time you go past an old book store,
you're gonna have to go inside to see if it's there.

- This is just wrong. You don't just have the most
incredible night of your life...with a perfect stranger and then
leave it all to chance, do ya?

- All right, if we both randomly pick the same floor,
we're meant to be together now.

- I don't understand this.

- You don't have to understand.You just have to have faith.

- Faith in what?

- Destiny.

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- I'll throw in the screenplay to The Bridges of Madison County.

- I saw the movie. It was great.

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- I'm Sara Lawson. Hi. Sorry I'm late.

- How are you?

- My name is Sara and I'm gonna cut your hair today.

 - And me forever Sara, smile Whoo!

- And the guy in the taxi, he's serenading me, "Sara." I'm telling you, the universe keeps revealing her to me,

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- Godfather, Partll. That was an incredible movie. Might be better than the original. All right? But no matter how much you love The Godfather, Partll, you still have to see the original... to understand and appreciate the sequel, don'tya?

                   
- I'm telling you right now, British women do not age well.
You know, I mean, years ago, yes, she was a luscious treat.
You know, she probably looked like, you know, Baby Spice.
But now she could look like--
- 
Old Spice.

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-how I'm the only girl in the entire universe meant for you.

when people get hooked on the New Age life. They end up sitting at home burning candles for Mr. Right... when Mr. Good Enough For Right Now is waiting at the corner bar.

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- I've just spent the entire flight... staring into the sky, thinking. Not about my fiance, but about this mystery guy... I met a million and a half hours ago. A guy I don't even remember, except for this... vague picture I have inside my head. It was just a few seconds. A fragment, really. And it was like... in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm gonna let fate take me wherever it wants to go. Because when all this is over, at least I'm never gonna have to think of him ever again.

- Let's just pray he's a bald fascist... who picks his nose and wipes it under the car seat.

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- Sara, you know, it's a wonderful thought. The idea that all of life, that every single event is part of some master plan... designed to lead us to our universal soul mate. But if that's really true, then what's the point of living? Or making decisions? Hell, why should we even get out of bed in the morning?
- For the cake?
- No. Not for cake. So that you make mistakes. Mistakes like this trip. And if you're smart enough, you learn from your mistakes. You figure it out. You-You think. You realize that life isn't some elaborate stage play with directions for the actors. Life's a mess, Sara. It's-It's chaos personified.
- I have to give it all up now, don't I?
- Sara, you have a fiance who, despite his weird Eastern music, which we hope is just a phase, let's hope, loves you very, very, very much. It's not giving up. It's growing up.

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- It's over, man.

- What? What are you talking about?

- How can I ignore that? "Bless the goddamn bride"?

- What?

- It can't get any more clearer than this. I'm not supposed to be doing this.
It's not in the cards. 

- Hey, it's another one of your clues, man. Let's talk about it in the cab...
on the way over.

- It's not a clue. It's a sign.

- What's the difference?

- A clue is what a detective uses to find a suspect.
The receipt, the warehouse, that French guy-- those
are clues. This is a sign. Me never finding the book,
that's a sign.
Sara never finding the $5 bill,that's a sign.

- How could something not happening be a sign?

- Maybe the absence of signs is a sign. Isn't it?

- That's lucid.

- Look, I don't know, man. Maybe there is no fate. And if there is,
it's not working for me.

- You know, it's not actually supposed to end this way, by the way.
We're supposed to pull the curtain and see the wizard, all right?

- Get to the end of the river.

- This is the end of the river. My wedding rehearsal...
starts in less than an hour.

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- My bride is waiting for me.

- Let me ask you something here. If Sara were here right now,
poof, came down, what would she tell you to do?

- She would tell me to run, not walk to the Waldorf...because all the signs
point to me getting married.
Look. Wedding dress.
Lots of white.

- I hate to state the obvious--

- State it.

- If you don't do this, you may never find out who Sara is.

- Maybe I was never supposed to. Maybe all this is just a maze...
designed to lead me directly back to where I started.
Which is getting married.

- They should make pills for this.

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- Whatever it is that you're holding on to, please just let it go. Please.

- I think it already let go of me, okay?

It's a first edition. It's just that every time we go into a bookstore, you're always flipping through it. And I checked this week. You don't even have a copy. What's wrong? Don't you like it? It's perfect. It's an excellent choice.
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- When you know That you know Who you love You can't deny it
- What's going on? Are you all right?
- Her name's Sara Thomas.

- You are. You--Y-Y-You're my hero, you know?
You're like my oracle and shit, you know? You're out there, man,
and you're making it happen.

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- We died.

- What was the cause of death? Not enough of all of this, of this, of this. And not enough, you know? Do you-- Do you remember the philosopher Epictetus? You remember what he said? He said, "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

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- Didn't-- Didn't she say that everything happens for a reason?

- Yeah, she did.

- Well, maybe we're laying here because--

- Because why?

- Because you don't want to be standing somewhere else.
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"When God shuts a door, he opens a window."

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- You know, the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

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Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN,
died last night from complications of losing his soulmate and his fiance.
He was 37 years old and soft-spoken and obsessive.

Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic.
But in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche.
This hidden quasi-Jungian persona...surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit
for his long-reputed soulmate, a woman whom he only spent
a few precious hours with.

Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night...in complete and utter failure.
Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief...
that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences.
Uh-uh. But rather it's a tapestry of events...that culminate in
an exquisite, sublime plan.

Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author and executive editor of the New York Times,described Jonathan as a changed man
in the last days of his life.

"Things were clearer for him, " Kansky noted.

Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if weare to live life
in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful
faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum," - what we currently refer to as destiny.

Destiny.

1, 2, 3:

I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love.

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl,
My heart says follow t'rough.
But I know, now, that I'm way down on your line,
But the waitin' feel is fine:
So don't treat me like a puppet on a string,
'Cause I know I have to do my thing.
Don't talk to me as if you think I'm dumb;

I wanna know when you're gonna come - soon.
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love,
'Cause if summer is here,
I'm still waiting there;
Winter is here,
And I'm still waiting there.

[Guitar solo]

Like I said:
It's been three years since I'm knockin' on your door,
And I still can knock some more:
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feasible?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more.
Ya see, in life I know there's lots of grief,
But your love is my relief:
Tears in my eyes burn - tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting - while I'm waiting for my turn,
See!

I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love;
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love, oh!
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna wait in vain.
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna wait in vain.
No, I don't wanna (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
No I - no I (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't
wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
No, no-no, I, no, I (I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain) -
It's your love that I'm waiting on (I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain);
It's me love that you're running from.
It's Jah love that I'm waiting on (I don't wanna - I don't wanna -
I don't wanna - I don't wanna - I don't wanna wait in vain);
It's me love that you're running from.