December means many things to many people. For me, it means snow and birthdays and Christmas and hugs and family and gingerbread and friends and Love, Actually. December is all about Love, Actually. I’ve seen this movie a zillion times and every time I watch it, it gets better and better. Best is when I can watch it with someone that has never seen it before and get those first time view feelings for real. Love this. I recently found out that my dear SF only now just saw this movie. I know she kept this from me (or maybe I blocked it from my mind?) because I’d probably have broken up with her, or flown to YVR to force her to watch it. Anyway, that’s over now. This cinematic and life wrong has been righted and, of course, she loved it. Even with all the hype and expectation and my going on and on about it ad nauseam year after year she loved it. A movie has to be pretty amazing to withstand all that hyperbole. But seriously, how can you not love it?
It’s Love, Actually!
The interwoven storyline dealing with all facets of love is so charming, heartwarming and poignant it kills you. It’s hard to say which storyline is my favourite, my thoughts on this shift every year depending on where I’m at. Yes, every year. I watch every year most definitely at my Love, Actually viewing party where I gather ‘round with all my peeps and feel the love en masse. Sometimes I spoil myself silly and watch more than once. It’s typically on for the whole month as pseudo background condo-companions as I clean, bake and putter. I want every month to be Love, Actually month. Every day to be a Love, Actually day. The movie is perfection. And, now,I’m gushing. And getting off point. It’s Firth Friday! I feel that it’s a testament to how God really feels about me (because, like rappers and Award Show winners I feel God is there for just me) that Colin was cast in this film. His presence doesn’t make the movie by any stretch, it would have been amazing without him, of course, but with him? With him, in his particular thread, it’s better than the best. What's better than the best? Why, brilliant, of course! So Colin, so British, so Love, Actually.
Enjoy. And really, if you haven’t seen this movie come to my party. It’s going to be so great. No. No, it’s not. It’s going to be brilliant.
Happy December! Happy Firth! Happy Love, Actually!
(Thanks to Kory, I can now embed. :) ).
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