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Monday, January 31, 2011

The Holiday

Every Sunday for the past few weeks, I've been sorting out my movie collection. I check the DVDs for any damage, wipe'em clean and play them. Today, I watched "The Holiday(2006)" starring Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black with Eli Wallach. One of the best movies to deal with relationships and heartbreaks, The Holiday explores relationships for five lovelorn individuals and how they cope with various expressions of love. This is a perfect movie to help move on. 

So we have Kate (the narrator), a victim of unrequited love; Jack, a music composer whose girlfriend cheats on him; Jude Law, a recent widower experiencing the "joys" of single parenthood and re-entry into the dating scene; Eli Wallach a long time widower still pining for his wife and Cameron whose boyfriend dumps because she is emotional handicap - she just can't cry.
The Holiday


Amanda (C.D) and Iris (K. W) are two diametrically opposite women, at two end's of the world. They differ in everything.. house, cars, jobs, but for the fact they have both gone through a break up. They differ in that too. Amanda dumped her boyfriend, Iris was dumped by her's. They exchange houses for a couple of weeks and the rest, as they say, is history. Amanda meets Iris's single 'brother' while Iris finds a friend.


It's a beautiful movie. One of the Rare Ones, that is both funny and romantic. A real rom-com. The music is lovely. It's kind of what you'd expect to hear in a rom-com and it doesn't let you down. The narration is a li'l patchy but makes up for it, with lots of zeal and absolutely familiar characters.


Kate is quite neat as a love torn English lass-next-door, while Cam is sexy as a fiesty American gurl. Jack Black is quite believable in his 'composer-music director' role but Jude Law actually steals the whole show "I cry ALL the time" act. Eli Wallach as Arthur... can't say much about him; he's always been great. Edward Burns is completely wasted though, as Cam's ex-boyfriend.


No matter how many times I watch it, I always cry at the end - esp. when Amanda cries for the first time. It reminds us of something at that we probably forget in our fast lives. That Love can, and will sneak in whenever you are least expecting it.

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