Love Actually is Actually about Love Sam Smathers 4th

"Love Actually Is The Least Romantic Film of All Time" by Christopher Orr from The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/12/-em-love-actually-em-is-the-least-romantic-film-of-all-time/282091/

Sam Smathers 4th

     The main purpose is of this article is to refute the argument that "Love Actually", a popular british love story filmed a lot like "Valentines Day" with many small plots, is an accurate love story. The author says that love is presented to be all about physical attraction in this movie and that the movie presents love to be something that is easily obtained. The author says that the movie portrays the hardest part of love declaring out loud that you are in love, and that everything after the proclamation is easy. Some people claim that "Love Actually" is a holiday movie and the author says that in no way shape or form is this move a holiday movie, despite the fact it takes place over Christmas. Christopher Orr is bitter about how this movie makes Christmas into a sort of Valentines day and is salty about the way love is conveyed in this movie.
    I recently watched "Love Actually" for the first time this weekend on one of the ice days. I actually really liked the movie and thought that for most of the individual plot lines it described how people react to real love accurately. For the sake of this being a movie, of course the characters manage to fall in love in a two week time span, but other than that I found nothing un realistic about the movie at all. The movie shows that love can conquer all obstacles such as language, age, and stereotypes. One of the plot lines is about a writer who falls in love with his portuguese house maid. He realizes his love for her when she jumps into the lake to save his book that had blown away in the wind, naturally she takes off her shirt and pants before jumping in. The Christopher Orr only recognized that the writer fell for the maid after she got semi naked, not the fact that she jumped in a freezing cold lake to save the manuscript. Orr also said that the only reason why the writer later learned Portuguese was to propose to her. Orr neglects to acknowledge that these two people spent a lot of time together, just them two in a cabin. The writer and the maid may not know each other in by language, but they know each other through their silence. Instead of emphasizing the physical or the verbal part of a relationship this plot serves to emphasize the silence of a relationship, and how love doesn't rely on words, love relays on how you feel around someone in silence. At the end of the movie the writer flies to Brazil, finds her, and proposes in Portuguese, if there is a greater gesture of love let me know because I don't think it is possible. This movie shows to highlight the exceptions to how people normally fall in love, it is all about the whole soul mate love is the most powerful stuff. People normally fall in love through spending a ton of time with someone and then they kinda just say that they are in love because the other person accepts their weird flaws and kills the spiders. This movie shows love without all of the elapsed  time. The  movie captures the first realization of love because it is most exciting beautiful thing on earth and this realization of love is what gives people hope, the fighting twenty years later gives no one hope, so this is not the focus.