'Empathicalism'

This is presented in some posts as a parody of French philosophy and of existentialism, which is something totally different than what's described in the film. It think it has much more to do with this film than people realize and gives it more depth than some people are seeing.

The only thing I don't like about this film is the sudden arguements that Audrey and Fred launch into just to set up the "boy meets girl/ boy loses girl" thing. But that element is in most musicals and if you could find a themeatic connection between most musicals, (what they all as a group, seem to be saying to us), it is that while we concern ourselves with many other things, in the end, love is what counts. In this film Audrey and Fred are playing people from entirely different worlds who by chance happen to meet up. Their mutual ambitions keep them together and their obvious differences come between them. But they fall in love nonetheless, as Audrey finds that emotions are as important a part of life as thought and Fred finds he is working with someone with more depth in both areas than the people he's used to. The question is: will their differences keep them part or will their common ground keep them together.

The key, as the movie says, is for her to put herself in his place and him to put herself in her place and they are both bound to meet up someplace. There can't be a better defintion of 'empathicalism' than that and it seems like a philosophy that would do the world a lot more good than existentialism.