Siska's rants.. and some other things

A lot of new things happen in my life and surround me..so I decide to write everything comes up in my mind, to remind me again of all the silly and interesting bits and pieces...

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Love actually is everywhere...

Tagline: Love actually is all around
I have a guilty pleasure, is that watching one film, over and over again, and indulge myself with mellow feeling and even, practically crying on a same an certain scenes. This film is Love Actually. That there are some times that I felt I have to re-watched it again and again, like a battery charger.
This is about several stories involves several people (which also linked to each other) and happen from 5 weeks before Christmas in London.
The overall story, the combination between the scenes, dialog, music and Christmas air in London describes this film very beautifully. And, not forget to mention, the thick English accent of the actors.
I have several favorites’ scenes:
1. During Joanna’s (Sam’s mother funeral), the goodbye song that she chosen by herself was a happy-fast beat song from The Beatles “Bye.. bye baby” following the slides of Joanna’s old pictures.
2. Peter and Juliet’s wedding, where the band players came out among the wedding guests in the church, singing “All you need is love”, again, Beatles song. The singer and choir then appeared from the upstairs.
3. The ironic, satirical, funny (in weird way) things in a lot of Hugh-Grant’s dialog as the Prime Minister.
4. The Prime Minister was dancing (as he thought that nobody watching) and at the end he was embarrassed to realize that one of his hose-staff was standing speechlessly watching him. This was hilarious.
5. The not-proper joke blurted out by the old pop-singer, Billy Mac has caused the hosts Ant and Dec awkwardly stop the show for an advertisement session.
6. All scenes about Jamie, the writer and the Portuguese maid in France’s house was great, especially when both of them jumped to the muddy pond, and also when they are conversing in weird way, one speaking English and the other speaking Portuguese, but somehow they’re connected (of course, this only happened in a film).
7. When Sam’s father was worried if Sam’s problem was about drug..”you never know if he injected heroin to his eye-balls”
8. When Mark was trying to get rid of Juliet from finding the wedding video tape and finally Juliet realized that Mark likes her, Mark then walked out from his apartment, confused what to do, with Dido’s song “white flag”.
9. Sarah’s relationship-to grow with Karl didn’t work out because her not-so-well brother. Their last scene was when Pete greeted Sarah, merry Christmas and Sarah answer blandly.
10. When Karen realized that the is other woman whom his husband has given to Christmas present to, she hides in their bed room, with Joni Mitchell’s song “other side of the story” playing and she tried to bear the bursting tear.
11. Finally Karen confronted his husband, saying” Would you wait around to find out if it's just a necklace, or if it's sex and a necklace, or if worst of all it's a necklace and love? Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?”
12. When Mark showed up in Juliet & Peter’s apartment, pretending to be a christmas carol, just to be honest that he likes her by showing some cards.
13. "All I want for Christmas is You" song performed by Olivia Olson in the christmas concert
14. Prime Minister and Natalie showed up accidentally in the Christmas concert, they were kissing when the stage revealed them. Prior to that, Karen met them and hug her brother so tight, trying to express her confusion of what she found about her husband’s affair.
15. The best scene was the last scene at the Heathrow Airport, when all of them re-united with their lover in various ways and continued with other real passenger’s expressions while meeting their loved one.

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