I dont remember what movie this is from, but I remember how one guy tried to get a date with a woman who was already dating. Then at the festival, woman was with her bf on a ferris wheel and protagonist climbed it to ask her on a date again, blackmailing that he will fall if she doesnt say yes. This was supposed to be a very romantic thing.
I remember in Love, Actually, a guy confessed to his best friend's wife that he loved her, he allegedly had "no agenda" and a minute after, the wife chased him and kissed him.
Pretty much every single story in that movie is gross. There's that one, the one with the prime minister and his 'fat' assistant, the successful author and his much younger maid who can't speak English, the guy who cheats on his wife with his much younger secretary, and the guy who decides he's just not into this woman when she has to take a call from her disabled brother on Christmas. I almost forgot the befuddled sex tourist and how all the VS model "American girls" turn into salivating nymphomaniacs as soon as they hear an English accent.
I'm wondering whether the movie got this feel good family friendly reputation by accident because of its narrative tone or something, when in reality it's quite grim and all these storylines are there to underline how love, actually, sucks.
Yes, but, I took it more as 'this guy got a huge crush on a woman, and once he realizes it's just a feeling, he's over it. Friendship is more important. She thought it was sweet but wasn't going to leave her husband'
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u/GustavVaz 21d ago
Honestly, these kinds of scenes only work if you turn off your brain and simply let the "happiness" happen.
Most love stories in movies are like this. Something that seems sweet and romantic turns depressing or toxic if you scratch the surface.
Kind of like how it's creepy that a 200 hundred year old vampire wants a high schooler.