Love Actually….. Jolly good movie eh?

26Jan08

For people with a pathetically comatose social life…like mine… weekends are a boringly mundane affair. Saturday mornings are non existant because i sleep through them. Saturday afternoons are spent sleepin after a atrociously heavy brunch… and its actually in the evening that i wake up to the fact that i am whiling away a WEEKEND… so i go out and grab some movies..You might be tempted to pity my existance… Naah!! not this Saturday evening..

I was lucky enough to lay my hands on ‘Love Actually’, and at 3 am, when the movie got over… i felt energized enough to write this blog. The movie is simple and yet it manages to make you smile, cry, laugh and sometimes squirm… I say squirm because there are moments in the movie where you might be reminded of your own emotional incompetence/actionlessness; and knowing (now) that it was not the best thing to do (then)..something inside you will scream out to the characters to snap out of this state of … inertia.. and do something sensible.

The good part is that,the characters…all of them..get a second chance to do the sensible thing…and they do the sensible thing. Its such a relief to see people do the right thing after having done the wrong thing..and come out smiling.

Of course its just a movie, and yes i have learnt that real life is not so charitable as to give you a second chance everytime, but still.. it gives a vicarious pleasure to see people falling in love actually.

If you have not seen it, i would strongly recommend this movie to you, especially if you think that you have been guilty of inertia at some moment in your past and have not been given a second chance….yet.

Coming to the scenes, my personal favorite is the scene between Juliet and Mark.. the story has been taken to a very mature culmination.. great job Mr Curtis.

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