Saturday, February 5, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge: Day 28

Only two more days of this challenge, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what the last two days will talk about. But for today, considering yesterday's topics, the theme should be pretty obvious. Undoubtedly, today's theme is...

A MOVIE THAT MAKES ME HAPPY

This is Love Actually. And not everything from Love Actually, just one specific story line. The cool part about this movie is that there are about 8 different story lines occurring around Christmas at once. The most joyful is a toss-up between Jamie (Colin Firth) learning Portuguese for his summer house maid, Aurelia (Lucia Moniz) and Daniel (Liam Neeson), whose still coping with the death of his wife Joanna, helping his son Sam (Thomas Sangster) get the girl of his dreams, also coincidentally named Joanna. These are the two stories that finish the movie because they are the strongest story lines in my opinion and they bring about the greatest sense of joy. I love the story between Jamie and Aurelia, and I think that it is very romantic that they both learn a new language to get across the language barrier (even though they could communicate and understand each other really well). But the story that makes me the happiest is Sam's chase for Joanna. Despite taking place less than two years after 9/11 (it actually is pretty ballsy and talks about 9/11 in the beginning), they still have an airport scene where Sam jumps security to tell the girl he loves how he feels. And it isn't cliched in the sense that they kiss (I mean, they're about ten years old) because Sam realizes that Joanna, who he thought would never recognize him, knows his name. And then, when Sam is escorted out of the airport, Joanna chases him back and gives him a loving kiss on the cheek. It is childhood love at its finest. A truly great movie for really any holiday.

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