OS HOMENS E AS MULHERES PODEM SER AMIGOS? Num seu blog satélite, o Alex interroga-se sobre se é possível existir verdadeira amizade entre homens e mulheres. Ao ler o seu post, lembrei-me do divertido filme "When Harry met Sally", com Billy Crystal e Meg Ryan nos principais papéis.

Um dos mais conhecidos e divertidos diálogos do filme trava-se quando Harry explica a Sally porque é que não podem ser amigos:

"Sally: We are just going to be friends, okay?

Harry: Yeah. Great. Friends. Best thing.

(long silence)

Harry: You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.

Sally: What do you mean?

Harry: "What I'm saying - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men an women can't be friends.

Sally: That's not true. I've a number of men friends and there's no sex envolved.

Harry: No you don't.

Sally: Yes I do.

Harry: No you don't.

Sally: Yes I do.

Harry: You only think you do.

Sally: You are saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?

Harry: No, I'm saying they all want to have sex with you.

Sally: They do not.

Harry: They do too.

Sally: They do not.

Harry: Do too.

Sally: How do you know?

Harry: Because no men can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always want to have sex with her.

Sally: So, you are saying a man can be friends with a woman he finds unnattractive?

Harry: No, you pretty much want to have sex with them too.

Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?

Harry: Doesn't matter. The sex thing is already out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that's the end of the story.

Sally: Well. I guess we are not going to be friends, then.

Harry: I guess not.

Sally: It's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York".


E vocês, que acham? Podem os homens e as mulheres serem apenas amigos?

(o argumento do filme pode ser encontrado neste endereço, em formato pdf).