When the moon hits your eye

I watched part of Moonstruck last night. It was showing on PBS. If you've never seen it before, this is a total "spoiler". Scenes from it are coming back to me ... this is what I remember.

I tuned it in, thought, I don't want to watch this, and then decided I did, then switched away again and went back again.

I think Cher looked so beautiful after she got her hair done.

I'm not sure when I tuned in first. In one scene, Nicholas Cage asks her to go to the opera. I switched away. I came back she's having her hair done. She buys a dress. She's putting on her make-up. Then you see "the reveal"--she steps out of a taxi in these red high heels, and she's just beautiful.

How do you act at the opera, what do you say? When she opens her mouth she sounds funny, is it that she doesn't match how she looks because she doesn't sound high-society? Or because she doesn't want to admit that she's fallen for her fiance's brother (Nick). Cher & Nick talk like working class NYers (I don't know is it a Brooklyn accent, Italian-Bronx, what?).

Cher cries over the opera.

Later in the lobby, Cher sees her father with a woman who is not her mother. She confronts him.

Oh and meanwhile her mother is having dinner at a restaurant alone. I switched away. I came back she was eating her dinner with a man, not her husband. I think this has come about because the fellow asked her if he could join her. She asks him, "Why do men chase women"? He has some thoughts. She says, "I thinks it's because they're afraid of dying." Man walks her home. She passes her father-in-law who is walking the dogs. She turns down the man's advances and tells him he can't come in although she thinks the house is empty, because "I'm married. I know who I am". They kiss each other on the cheek.

After the opera, Cher and Nick are walking and he tells her something like, You can't marry my brother. You waited for the right man the first time. Why didn't you wait this time? She says, "He didn't come." He says, "I'm here." She says, "You're late." He, You can't marry my brother. It's dangerous to play it safe. Women like you shouldn't play it safe.

The final scene in the movie, breakfast the next day. Cher comes home kicking a can with her red heels. She's talking with her mother. By ones and by twos, other people show up, including Nick, her father, some family friends, the grandfather, and Cher's fiance. There is this great confusion, tension and humor. Cher's mother tells her father to end the thing with the other woman. Cher's fiance calls off the engagement before she has a chance to tell him that she's fallen for his brother, and the happy conclusion: Cher and Nick are engaged.

The movie closes with that song that has the words "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore," sung by Dean Martin. That's Amore, it's called.

That feeling of falling in love, I've felt it before. Maybe it's really infatuation. When life seems so intense and hopeful. That feeling that gives you wings and zest. It makes you glow.

And then there's the kind of love that makes you turn down the charming advances of another man, even though you know you're husband is cheating.