Once

Once is a simple story of a guy (Glen Hansard) and a girl (Marketa Irglova), whose names we never learn. They meet She is from the Czech they both share a love they are reluctant to their surprisingly similar Their circumstances are everyman and everywoman.
Individually, they are facing we’re honest with unpretentious way pity. One of my favorite her broken vacuum without a hint of selfconsciousness.
Hansard, a “Hoover fixer” by day, promised to look at her broken Hoover and we are left wondering, “Could they have been brought into each other’s orbit by a vacuum cleaner?” Their relationship moves naturally from a vacuum cleaner to a piano store, where their first collaborative musical effort is a metaphor for their relationship: cautious at first, learning, moving into beautiful harmony and then sheer, soaring joy! Their relationship comes to life before our eyes and is utterly believable.
In an early scene, after meeting only the night before, the two stand in an extremely busy pedestrian street, where she is peddling magazines and he his music. They have discovered each other. In the midst of this rushing mass of humanity, they pause.
They are connected by their broken dreams and their hope, expressed so powerfully in music. Indeed, it is their music, crafted in the crucible of their pain and joy, that carries the film.
This is a modern musical, in which the musical elements don’t feel forced or added on. In traditional musicals, people break into song where “normal people” would just talk. It is a powerful theatrical device. But in Once, the music and the narrative are seamless. It is the music they each create—the windows into their souls—that makes this a story worth telling.
In spite of the soaring music and simple, lovable plot, this story is not naive. Many lesser films would move quickly to the two falling in love and living “happily ever after.” But in Once, reality is always close at hand. Things are never as simple as they seem “in the movies.” Rather than taking the well-worn path of resolving the tension of the story in cliché ways that resemble fairy floss in your mouth— tasty for a moment, gone the next—this film is patient. It takes time for a good story to yield the treasure that lies beneath the surface.
What if there is something more than just a quick romance, a fling or the heat of passion? This is a story that reminds us that deep and lasting relationships are worth the trouble and that redemption is possible, even if not easy. There are no guarantees but love is worth the risk. It gives hope without resorting to sentimental idealism. It is a story that tugs at your soul—not just your heart.