It's alright, I know what you mean. Ours will have to be a secret love that dare not speak its name.
I suppose you're right about that love triangle - I had thought of it as being purely about Andrew Lincoln and Kiera Knightly, but it's also a bit about friend-love too. He loves his mate, but he's in love with his mate's wife, and the former means he will never do anything about the latter. Bless.
I also believe that the writer and the portugese woman are doomed to failure. The proposal was the first time either of them had said something the other one understood, it was almost purely physical. I'm sure they've each built up this image of the other one that is going to be just destroyed when they actually begin to converse. But that's not really what the film is about, I suppose. It's about how sometimes, stupidly, love actually conquers all - see subplot about bloke from My Family conquering America, armed only with a charming English accent and a backpack full of condoms. And they obviously have some things in common, as evidenced by them speaking almost the exact same lines in different languages, something that I thought was purely comical at the time but may actually have been important.
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Re: love, actually
Date: 2003-11-23 03:02 pm (UTC)I suppose you're right about that love triangle - I had thought of it as being purely about Andrew Lincoln and Kiera Knightly, but it's also a bit about friend-love too. He loves his mate, but he's in love with his mate's wife, and the former means he will never do anything about the latter. Bless.
I also believe that the writer and the portugese woman are doomed to failure. The proposal was the first time either of them had said something the other one understood, it was almost purely physical. I'm sure they've each built up this image of the other one that is going to be just destroyed when they actually begin to converse. But that's not really what the film is about, I suppose. It's about how sometimes, stupidly, love actually conquers all - see subplot about bloke from My Family conquering America, armed only with a charming English accent and a backpack full of condoms. And they obviously have some things in common, as evidenced by them speaking almost the exact same lines in different languages, something that I thought was purely comical at the time but may actually have been important.