Friday, June 20, 2008

Check your mailbox: you've got a mail!



This is the story about two business rivals who hate each other in business but in the end fall in love over the internet. These two letter-writing lovers are completely unaware that their sweetheart is in fact is actually their rival. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) runs the independent bookstore named “The Shop around The Corner”, that her mother ran before her. Kathleen using the avatar "Shopgirl", communicates with avatar "NY152". Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), who runs “Fox Books”, a chain of "mega" bookstores. The two then pass themselves on their respective ways to work, unbeknownst to each other. They later became a best friend to each other (at that moment, Kathleen has a boy friend, and so with Joe has a girl friend.

Kathleen fears with this “Fox Books” store, which opening around the corner of her store, while she doesn’t know that this is actually Joe’s store. She tells this problem to Joe in one of her email, and this makes Joe get shocked. The conflict began, and the rest of it is just full with dramatic situation. The two develop a tentative friendship that blossoms of a few weeks in relationship and they fall in love for one another.

You've Got Mail updates that concept to the use of e-mail and the mail box on internet. The name of the film which was launched in 1998: “You’ve Got Mail!” later became the famous greeting that AOL users hear when they receive new e-mail in their mailboxes. So don’t forget to always check up your mailbox, and maybe you can find a letter from your true soul mate between one of your mail boxes.

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