Blog Post 11: You, Me, and Everyone We Know

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This week in class we watched the 2005 Drama/Romance film, You, Me, and Everyone We Know. I enjoyed watching this film. The biggest takeaway I got from this was the importance that human connection has in people's lives. It focuses on how separation has a bad impact on human connection. In this blog I talk about how humans' thirst for some sort of connection in their lives, both human and electronic. 

In the beginning of the film, we are introduced to Richard Swersey. He has just gone through a breakup with the mother of his two children, Peter and Robby. He is now a single father who struggles in his job as a shoe-salesman to support and provide for his kids. He finds himself alone, stressed, and tired. However, he is doing everything he can to rebuild a connection with both Peter and Robby. 

Then one day while Richard was working, a young lady walked into his shop in search of shoes. This young lady is introduced as Christine. She is a lonely and quirky video artists who also works with the elderly. He connects deeply with her, but is it enough for a relationship with her? As he keeps meeting with Christine, a strong bond is formed and his romantic attraction for her begins to grow. 

    Robby is a little kid, around six years old. Little kids always think anything regarding poop is comical. He comes up with the text symbol of "((<>))", which means someone pooping. This symbol catches the attention of the woman he is in communication with on the other end of the computer. The two then come up with a time and day to meet at a local park. Once they meet up, the woman realizes that she had been talking to this little boy [Robby] all this time, and in this scene, I believe that she was taken aback to a time in her life when she was that young and in search of some sort of emotional connection with a person. She then kisses him and walks away.

    Throughout this film, there were many connections that were made from person to person. For example, Peter's friendship with Sylvie. The emotional connection that these two had was evident in the film, especially in the scene where Sylvie told and showed Peter her 'Hope Chest'. The chest obviously had a deep and sentimental value to Sylvie and her courage to tell the story behind it to Peter is a resemblance of a connection of trust with him. Then there was obviously the connection between Christine and Richard, whose feelings for each other were hard to hide in the film. They were accepting of each other's lives and flaws because both were lonely and in search of a connection with another person. A human's instinct for a need for connection in their everyday lives no matter the obstacles it takes to get there is perfectly depicted in this film. This film has such a realistic story behind it, so we are able to watch it and compare it to how humans feel when they are alone to how they feel when with another person in friendships or relationships.