Charming and sweet film, directed by the great director Ernst Lubitsch. Inspired by the work "Parfumerie" by the Hungarian writer Miklós László. The original work was also adapted to the musical entitled She Loves Me. It shows us the aversion, rejection and antipathy between two apparently opposite personalities who coincide in the same workplace and that fate will have a surprise in store for them, as the title indicates.
The image and way of being with which we show ourselves to the world often hides the person who is really inside us. Why don't we show ourselves as we really are and feel, perhaps because we are afraid of being vulnerable to being hurt or hurt? do harm Well, vulnerability is now synonymous with authenticity and value and is a symbol of charisma and personality, those forms of wanting to appear normally what one is not, that the only thing it shows is what one lacks, have already been outdated. Our protagonists Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) allow themselves to be themselves hidden among anonymous letters that they deposit in a post office box, in an old version of what current dating apps would be. They do not know each other, they do not know who they are personally, although fate will unite them working in the same store and between them there will not be the slightest attraction, rather they hate each other. They have idealized and are attracted to the person they have met through the letters that have been sent to each other, where they show themselves as they really are, they show their most intimate being. When the long-awaited appointment arrives, surprises will occur, when one of them discovers who the other person is and does not dare to introduce himself, at that moment he will try to change his perspective, the eyes with which he saw that person and begins to find delicacy and tenderness that it hides, its sensitivity and its authentic personality.
Many times we should change the perspective with which we see others, perhaps what we dislike about the other is what we do not like about ourselves, stop and reflect and above all learn from it and that it helps us to discover what we should change from ourselves.
