I watched 'SAME TIME NEXT YEAR' for the first time in years last night and again found myself totally involved with the beautiful story. I laughed, cried and cared for the characters, and the wonderful music score threading the years along was perfect. I love this film!
shareMe too!
Anytime I'm asked what my favorite film is, I say, "Same Time Next Year"
I've watched it 1000 times and will probably watch it 1000 more before I die!
Here's to those who wish me well...
I enjoyed watching it as well and did so last weekend. My wife watched it with me and she had never seen it before. She was disappointed that they didn't end up together and cried at the very last scene.
shareRomantic? Guess you weren't one of the spouses.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
Yes, I agree. The spouses were treated with such disrespect on so many levels. Doris and George were so unfair to them with this ritual of boinking each other once a year.
Tacky.
Yet I enjoyed the film despite my disgust for what they were doing.
Perhaps if they even felt a tinge of remorse for their actions.
Regardless of the circumstances, it is wrong to cheat on your spouse. It doesn’t matter if things are horrible in the marriage or not, it’s just wrong.
However, it happens. It happened to the characters in the film. It’s easy for anyone watching this film to be critical of the characters and say what they did was wrong and they’d be right.
It’s also easy for anyone to say that they would never so such a thing. But, we really don’t know that until we are in such a situation ourselves: away from home, someone very interested in you and, if you decided to take advantage of that, no one would ever know. That creates a very tempting situation.
Clearly, the main characters would have been together had they met earlier in life or at least not been married to other people when they met. For all we know, maybe they did end up together. George’s marriage proposal is turned away by Doris at the end. But, the very last scene (the passionate kiss shared by the ocean on the cliff) seems, at least to me, to indicate that the possibility of them being together was still there.
The way I look at it, their fate is left open for us to decide what happened to them. Did they end up together one day or did they just go on sharing one weekend together a year? That’s for the viewer to decide but I do like how the film leaves that part open.
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They found a solution what worked best for them. I suppose that was fine as long as their spouse’s never found out which they managed for many years until George’s infidelity was supposedly discovered by his wife.
One of the main reasons that they kept on meeting was simply because they never got caught. They both had good alibis that their spouses apparently believed for quite some time. They certainly enjoyed each other’s company, not to mention to sex, so they kept going back.
Even though what they did all of those years was wrong, I kind of did find myself rooting for them and hoping that they would be together. As I mentioned in earlier post, we never find out for sure and are left to wonder about that.