Love Actually
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TRIGGER WARNING: PERSON WHO THINKS LOVE, ACTUALLY IS TERRIBLE
TRIGGER WARNING: PERSON WHO THINKS LOVE, ACTUALLY IS TERRIBLE
Anna is, of course, referring to the 2003 Christmas sentimental favorite, Love, Actually: a film with a series of stories all interwoven, all about the ways love is actually all around us. There's fun things about it, and there are some MAJOR RED FLAGS in there.
Anna is, of course, referring to the 2003 Christmas sentimental favorite, Love, Actually: a film with a series of stories all interwoven, all about the ways love is actually all around us. There's fun things about it, and there are some MAJOR RED FLAGS in there.
The scene that Anna is talking about is the one listed below. Let's contextualize. Keira Knightley (KK) just got married to a very nice man (VNM). The VNM has a creepy best friend (CBF), who has been obsessively taking video of the happy couple, so much so that at one stage CBF is asked if he's in love with VNM. CBF says no.
The scene that Anna is talking about is the one listed below. Let's contextualize. Keira Knightley (KK) just got married to a very nice man (VNM). The VNM has a creepy best friend (CBF), who has been obsessively taking video of the happy couple, so much so that at one stage CBF is asked if he's in love with VNM. CBF says no.
Later, CBF shows up on the doorstep of VNM and KK, who are, as far as we know, blissfully happy in their new marriage. Then, CBF does this: he uses cue cards to psychologically torment and gaslight his best friend's WIFE by confessing his love to her, even though the best thing he can hope will happen will be... what? Sowing doubt in her mind over her marriage choice? Starting an affair? Getting her to leave VNM? This asshole is literally putting his need to put his feelings out there over the happiness of both his best friend and his new wife, which can be nothing but destabilizing and relationship damaging. It's perhaps the most spectacularly selfish declaration of love in cinema history.
Later, CBF shows up on the doorstep of VNM and KK, who are, as far as we know, blissfully happy in their new marriage. Then, CBF does this: he uses cue cards to psychologically torment and gaslight his best friend's WIFE by confessing his love to her, even though the best thing he can hope will happen will be... what? Sowing doubt in her mind over her marriage choice? Starting an affair? Getting her to leave VNM? This asshole is literally putting his need to put his feelings out there over the happiness of both his best friend and his new wife, which can be nothing but destabilizing and relationship damaging. It's perhaps the most spectacularly selfish declaration of love in cinema history.
Watch this jackass at work.
Watch this jackass at work.
This is a straight up move of a sociopath. It's this scene that makes Love, Actually stunningly difficult to justify as a classic. Read the Vox article underneath for further scathing opinions.
This is a straight up move of a sociopath. It's this scene that makes Love, Actually stunningly difficult to justify as a classic. Read the Vox article underneath for further scathing opinions.
