Wesley Morris

Because it's just a pile of meat.

But there's a cut to Harry in his increasing awareness that what is happening is happening, and he is about to lose this argument.

But Billy Crystal is performing increasing mortification at the fact.

It's interesting because it's simultaneously him losing this argument and him being embarrassed by this spectacle that she's creating.

And there are so many looks on his face of just like, oh, my God.

She's, oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

And he's like, oh, my God.

And so there's this tension.

There's this, like, physics between his...

mortification and her ecstasy and an important thing happens at about the 30th second in this scene wow you really well of the orgasm part of the scene the scene goes like three minutes long it's this the camera's on meg ryan mid fake orgasm and the man turns around behind her

And he is wearing a Yankees cap and he is completely deadpan, but looking in her direction.

And it's just the two of them in this shot.

And you realize, oh, my God, you as a viewer realizes they're not going to do the thing that a television show would do.

This is the Rob Reiner going to the movies part.

This is Nora Ephron knowing how the world works.

We're not going to pretend that this is a closed environment and these people are just here to make you think you're in a diner.

People are going to hear this orgasm.

Because it could have ended just like that.

It could have ended the minute that guy in the Yankees cap turns around.