Sabrina

Yesterday I was looking for an inspirational film. I was writing something and I needed a film that was able to give someone a breath of fresh air, one of those films that change your attitude towards something, preferably a classic film. I thought about "All About Eve" but it wasn't good enough. I searched the Internet and found nothing. At the same time, I had planned to watch Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and, as it turned out, this was the inspirational film I was looking for.

Here's where the inspiration was drawn from:

Sabrina is in Paris having a cooking class, but she forgets to turn on the oven for her soufflé.

Baron: I have been watching you. Your mind has not been on the cooking. It has been elsewhere. You're in love. And I will venture to go a step further. You are unhappily in love.

Sabrina: Does it show?

Baron:Very clearly. A woman happily in love, she burns the souffle. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven.

Later, she writes a letter to her father. She tells him:

I have learnt so many things, Father. Not just how to make vichyssoise or calf's head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe. I have learnt how to live, how to be in the world and of the world...and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life, or from love, either.

Sabrina is the chauffeur's daughter and she has been in love with the son of a rich family ever since she can remember. He had never paid attention to her, until she goes to Paris to study and comes back a sophisticated grown woman. When she comes back, her father tells her:

- Nothing's changed. He's still David Larrabee. And you're still the chauffeur's daughter. And you're still reaching for the moon.

Sabrina: No, Father. The moon's reaching for me.

And that is IT.