The film is about a man and a woman who believe in great true love. The man believes it’s behind him; the woman hopes it’s ahead of her. One of their ideals in life is “to be somebody’s true north.” Right away we know they’re in trouble. You don’t just find true love. You team up with somebody, and build it from the ground up. But Message in a Bottle believes in the kind of love where the romantic music comes first, trembling and sweeping under every scene, and the dialogue is treated like the lyrics.
