When Harry Met Sally

"When Harry Met Sally," could be one of the first romantic comedies that I have ever seen. Harry (Billy Crystal) met Sally (Meg Ryan) as they were leaving college and instantly hate each other, surprise surprise. The film flashes through their lives as they each fall in and out of love and preiodically run into each other. They eventually form an unlikely friendship, and both of them appreciate the beauty in having a friend that is of the opposite sex. Harry however, is constantly saying that men and women can't be friends, it's impossible.



The film deals with the inevitability that a man and a woman who are as close as Harry and Sally, can't separate friendship from romantic relationship. Among many of the amazing songs throughout the film, including Allman Brother's Band, "Rambling Man," Ella Fitzgerald's "Where or When," and a slew of songs preformed by Harry Conick Jr., the song that embodies the entire film to me is Frank Sinatra's "It Had To Be You," (I couldn't find a Sinatra version, so instead the Dean Martin version will have to do).

The title of the song alone is perfectly fitting for the film, because, not to be cliche, it had to be both of them together at the end. The main message of the song is that no one else is as perfect as the woman who Sinatra is singing about, describing his lover as, "mean," "cross," and "boss," three traits that sum up Sally efficiently.

"When Harry Met Sally," is one of the most iconic romantic comedies of the 1980s, and the soundtrack is cluttered with romantic songs, which everyone has to kick back and listen to every once in a while.