New York, I Love You

“New York, I Love You” is a film with a collaboration of 11 short love stories. Each of the short stories direct by different directors, all the directors come up with different ideas of love stories that based in New York. In the film, we get to see different types of characters and different types of stories. It is a film that without a plot, so audiences have to be very concentrate when they are watching because you will never know when it will jump to another story and when it will end.

The actor and actress in the film include Orlando Bloom, Maggie Q, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Shu Qi and so on. There are stories like a composer that needs to read, a kid that goes to prom with girl in a wheelchair and saw his ex girlfriend, a retired opera singer who wants to commit suicide and meets the hotel bellboy, an old couples takes a walk on their anniversary, an artist who wants to draw a portrait of a girl who works in a Chinese herbal store, and so on.

Abe and Mitzie 

The part I like the most in the film is the old couple, Abe and Mitzie which played by Eli Wallach and Cloris Leachman who walk to the same place during their anniversary. It is very lovely although they quarrel a lot on the way they walk to their destination. There’s other way for them to reach the destination but they choose to walk all the way there, which shows how lovely they are. Although there are lots of complaint from the wife but it shows that how she care her husband. She complaint that her husband walks too slow but she actually wait for him every time when her husband was left behind. It is very touching that no matter how inconvenient for the husband to walk to the destination but he insists to walk because is their anniversary and his wife accompany him all the way to the destination. Reach at the destination, the wife lay on her husband’s shoulder with a sweet smile and a sweet kiss from the husband on the wife’s forehead. I would say this is the most romantic story in “New York, I Love You”.

A girl that work in a Chinese herbal store and the artist 

Another scene that caught my attention is an artist who wants to draw a portrait of a girl who works in a Chinese herbal store, which played by Ugur Yucel and Shu Qi respectively. The story is about Shu Qi was working in a Chinese herbal store and one day she bump into the artist Ugur Yucel. Ugur Yucel was impress with her good looking face and he approach to Shu Qi and saying that he would like to draw a portrait of her. Is too sudden so she refuses to be his model but the artist insist to give her a name card and ask her to find him anytime if she change her mind. While she went back to the Chinese herbal store, she starts to think whether should help the artist to be his model. At last she decided to change her mind, she went to the address that shown on the name card to find the artist. Then when she reaches at the place, she found out that the artist had just passed away. A guy came to her and passes her a portrait, while she look at it is a portrait of her. Her face was full of regret; she should agree to be his model at first. The moral of the story is live life with no regrets. Life is too short for us to regret.

Retired Opera Singer and Hotel Bellboy

 Of course, there is a scene that makes me think because I don’t understand. It was the scene that a retired opera singer who wants to commit suicide and she meets a hotel bellboy, which played by Julie Christie and Shia LaBeouf. The story starts with the retired opera singer checked into the hotel room and then she meets the bellboy who helps her. The bellboy was very helpful and he prepares everything for the women. There is a part where the women open the window, standing in front of the window then the bellboy came in with a trolley that what he prepares for the women. The women then walk to the bed, both of them sitting on the bed and chatting. Then, the bellboy stand up and walk towards the window, falls to his death. Then, the scene jump to the hotel manager (John Hurt) looks out the balcony where the body should be and tells her there is nothing. This story was very confuse at first, is hard for me to understand. After the movie, I was discussing with my friends and one of them saying that the bellboy was actually an illusion.

Overall, it is an interesting film that consists of up to 11 short love stories. It makes me understand live life with no regrets and love is everywhere. Love is sweet; Love is bitter; Love is unconditional.