Love Actually
Feelin': A little stressed
Hummin': Too Lost in You by Sugababes
Warning: Spoilers up ahead. I tried not to be too specific but if you think it'll ruin your movie viewing then stop right now and go to the cinemas instead. It's definitely worth your time and money.
Love Actually is a UK film of several proportions. It’s a love story intertwined with several other love stories not unlike the webbed destiny we all participate in. Like the latest Friendster craze, unexpectedly, we find ourselves connected to other people through a friend of a friend of a friend. In this specific case is a story of ten different couples whose lives are interwoven with one another in a funny yet romantic tale, ranging from finding love in the oddest places to the inner torment of unrequited love, set just right before the holiday season.
The main characters, too many to mention (they’re in the picture if you’ve got 20/20 vision), are all looking for love. Each of these characters have love right in front of them, but obstacles of varying degrees hinder them from reaching out and telling these people just how much they love them. These little knots that block relationships from forming are the tasty spices of the story.
One of them, the best man who was almost mistaken for as gay, is in love with his bestfriend’s new bride. Another one is painfully in love with her officemate for two long years with everyone knowing about it. The British prime minister is in love with his “catering manager” but couldn’t make a move. A stepfather loses his wife and mistakenly thinks his son is angry with him but finds out after a little man-to-man talk that his son is confused and in love. A lover comes home only to catch his wife and brother playing a little naughty, but he finds a remedy to his heartbreak in a quaint countryside with a Portuguese he struggles to communicate to. All these and so much more of these love stories unfold one after the other as each of them gets a chance at love.
But as reality is, not everyone receives a happy ending. One will choose the love of family over the love, correction, gorgeous (*swoon* KARL *swoon*) love of her life. Another will fall into temptation and creates a rift in his marital relationship. And of course, like in all love stories, it wouldn’t be complete unless we have the one who does the sweetest things but has to sacrifice his own happiness, waiting in the shadows, continually loving without being loved in return.
I would love to recommend for EVERYONE to watch this movie, but for those who are quite sensitive to eherm…nudity, I’ll suggest passing this one up. But just to tell you, you’re missing a helluva good movie that’ll send you laughing with the Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson cameos, crying with the heartbreaks of deception and sacrifice, and swooning with the aroma of love all around. With all the beauty of love portrayed exceptionally well in the movie, we are reminded quite accurately what Love Actually is.
