If you want to fall in love

　　让你体会恋爱滋味的电影

　　A film so comforting that it has an item of soft furnishing in its title, Pillow Talk (1959) stars Doris Day as a career woman who can’t stand her playboy neighbour (Rock Hudson) who hogs their shared phone line. Why is it such a pleasure? One reason is that the most tense dramatic question is whether its devastatingly attractive heroine and hero will get together (of course they will), while the characters boast such aspirational lifestyles in the meantime. The best romantic comedies let you imagine that you, too, could wear those clothes, lounge around in those apartments, and have that flirtatious badinage in those metropolitan nightclubs and restaurants, so snuggle up with Doris and Rock – or, if you prefer, Hugh and Andie in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) or Billy and Meg in When Harry Met Sally (1989).

　　1959年电影《枕边细语》是一部连名字都软绵绵的暖心电影，多丽丝·黛在片中饰演一名职业女性，她无法忍受隔壁的花花公子(洛克·赫德森饰演)总是霸占着公用电话。为什么这部电影这么让人愉悦呢?一个原因是人们迫切地想知道无比迷人的女主角和男主角会不会在一起(当然会)，与此同时男女主角的生活方式又是如此令人向往。最好的浪漫喜剧会让你想象自己也穿着那种衣服，在那样的公寓里走来走去，在那些大都市夜总会和餐厅里开着暧昧的玩笑。你可以对着多丽丝和洛克浮想联翩，如果你愿意的话，也可以选择1994年电影《四个婚礼和一个葬礼》中的休和安迪，或者1989年电影《当哈利遇到莎莉》中的比利和梅格。

　　hog[hɔːɡ]: v. 独占

　　badinage[ˈbædɪnɑːʒ]: n. 开玩笑