Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
This is also insane
Incredibly problematic. I love It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia... bear with me folks, this tangent is going somewhere. It's a show where you have a gang of horrible people doing horrible things, yet I am still far more creeped out by Love Actually than I am by Always Sunny. Why? Well dear reader, it's a matter of consequences. For the uninitiated, this film follows a series of different storylines about men who perform grand gestures in a bid to make women love them or sleep with them over the Christmas period. In outlining the premise I hope you can see the issues I have already. The first major problem, which I find is endemic across western media, is that in this film grand gestures are a symbol of romance. I offer this thought as someone who is by no means an expert in amore, but grand gestures are a display of power not love. Colin Firth's places the burden of embarrassment on Aurélia in front of her hometown, Hugh Grant does the same with Natalie and her family and And
