4th Entry-Love Happens

Synopsis:
A self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself. Dr. Burke Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice. Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where he is speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance? As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realize that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, they find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it.

This movie illustrates to us the interpersonal communication between a man and a woman which is different and unique to what they have with those around them. The movie shows us the relational formation and development of their unique relationship. When the main characters, Seattle and Eloise met, they felt an unspeakable attraction to one another. Some say it is an attraction of the physical appearance while will say it is the chemistry or the pre-interactional cues. Whatever it is, it is a factor that led the both of them to enter into the initiating stage to know more about each other. We began to see them engaging in self disclosure and trying to "feel each other out". More than showing the 5 stages of coming together, the movie also tells us that it is a natural thing for us to engage with interpersonal communication with others especially with someone of the opposite gender. All the 5 coming together stages of Knapp Model of relational development will require the two involved to put in effort to develop them. However, it can be done naturally, just how Seattle and Eloise are so naturally attracted to each other. Sometimes, you do not have to pre-plan interpersonal communication with the other party because like what the movie has been emphasizing, sometimes when you least expects it...love happens.