Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.
Sliding doors moment movie.
We see it both ways in parallel.
Gottman calls it the sliding door moment.
One where she gets home early and catches her boyfriend john lynch the secret garden in bed with another woman the other where she doesn t.
Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman.
Is either time line interesting in itself.
Sliding doors 1 387 imdb 6 7 1h 39min 1998 x ray pg 13 this cleverly conceived romantic comedy follows a london woman oscar winner gwyneth paltrow shakespeare in love on two hypothetical paths.
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
Sliding door moments are the seemingly inconsequential everyday moments filled with the words we haphazardly throw back and forth at each other accompanied by little evanescent pains frustrations joys and laughter flying through our minds and our hearts that make or break the most important.
Although the term originated from the 1998 film sliding doors written and directed by peter howitt and starring gwyneth paltrow examples of sliding doors moments being used in modern vernacular vary to.
A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.
If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help.
I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.
The term a sliding doors moment became a term popularised in the late 20th century meaning seemingly inconsequential moments that nonetheless alter the trajectory of future events.