The Holiday

So I just finished watching the movie "The Holiday". You know... Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet & Jack Black? Well despite being cheesy at times, this movie always cheers me up. I will admit, it's no mind-blowing-life-changing film, but it is such a good feel good movie. Basically, it's about two girls (Diaz & Winslet) who are "brought together" by bad relationship experiences. Diaz lives in America, and Winslet lives in England, so they decide to switch homes for a couple of weeks just to get away from their regular lives. Diaz ends up falling in love with Winslet's widowed (is that even a word?) brother (Law = SEXY), and Winslet slowly but surely falls in love Diaz' friend (Black). Oh & my favourite part... she meets this super old writer who has worked on SO many movies AND met Carey Grant (I think it's quite clear why I love this movie). Nah, but honestly, this movie is so real! Well, maybe not the fairy tale ending, but the way it portrays life's unexpectability. I could relate to it on sooo many levels:
- Diaz is kind of reluctant to get attached to Law because she knows she's going to be leaving soon and doesn't want to complicate things. Weeelll, story of my life... I often prevent myself from enoying the present when I think about the future... SUCH AN OVERTHINKER! F.M.L
- Law tells Diaz he loves her and she doesn't say it back. LMAO I have so many theories about the L word that it's ridiculous. All I know is that I was in the same boat a while ago... and if I were Jude Law, I probably would've killed myself. But then again they've known each other for a week. Is it really love? I don't know, guess you can't judge a situation you've never been in (I realize that's kind of contradictory because I just said that I was in that situation a while ago, but you know what I mean!).
- Winslet meets that old man who introduces her to old films. Need I say more?
- I just love Winslet's relationship with Black... they take it slow (well as slow as you can take things in the span of two weeks) but they have something real (sound gay much?)
- Black & Winslet BOTH have the chance to take their "exes" back, but they realize that they've unncessarily stuck around for too long. Props to them, everyone realized this sooner or later... I hope.
WEELLL, overall, it's really entertaining, funny, cute, adorable, cheesy, JUDELAW=SEXYINTHISMOVIE, aaannddd just a cheer-er upper!
Some fav quotes:


Winslet: Because you're hoping you're wrong. And every time she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And every time she comes through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you. (Been there done that)
Winslet: You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!
Winslet: Shush. You broke my heart. And you acted like somehow it was my fault, my misunderstanding, and I was too in love with you to ever be mad at you, so I just punished myself! For years! But you waltzing in here on my lovely Christmas holiday, and telling me that you don't want to lose me whilst you're about to get MARRIED, somehow newly entitles me to say, it's over. This - This twisted, toxic THING between us, is finally finished! I'm miraculously done being in love with you! Ha! I've got a life to start living. (YEEESS!)
Winslet: I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms. (No need to say more).
Winslet: I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.

she knows what she's talking about.
P.S if you don't want your mood to be ruined.. DO NOT watch "The Other Boleyn Girl". Just Sayin'