The Holiday

This movie was recommended by an officemate of mine. Honestly, I don't trust his taste. But when I saw that we have a copy of the movie here at home. What the heck..

And I loved it! I'll watch it again, one time this week before I sleep.

I love the main characters. Although, I'm don't like Jack Black that much, I'm starting to admire his talents and what he can do.

It started off looking like "Love Actually", which I thought the concept was.

"Unrequited Love". I almost said it together with Kate Winslet during the naration of the first part of the movie. Isn't that what love really, actually most of the time is?

Home exchange is a really interesting for me. I hope someday to be able to do it.

The Amanda-Graham love story was what really hooked me deeper into the movie. At first I thought I knew how it would turn out. And at the very scene I was about to say, "I told you so," surprise! Two cute surprises, actually, which made me still guess how it should all turn out.

The Iris-Miles thing looked like a little late but alright I guess. Their situation happens a lot though. Unrequited love. Haay.. I watched this after seeing "Music and Lyrics" and the scene where Miles plays the Iris-melody, is so sweet. Made me wonder, if I were a melody, what would it sound like? It should be somewhere near alternative. It just should be.

I like Amanda's job! Making movie trailers. I think, it's really cool.

I want to have the list Arthur gave Iris. Although, I don't think I would like "Chariots of Fire" as much.

Since I thought Jude Law's role on the movie was like his role in "Alfie". I was thinking, is there a movie that Jude Law played a sex maniac serial killer. I sure would want to see that.

I'm half-Amanda and half-Graham when it comes to crying. Tears well up on my eyes so fast, and also when I'm expected to cry I don't. I just recently observed this. It's very easy for me to cry, over movies, things, music.. But when it's an actual scene in my life, I can't cry a single tear. Is it because I have used up the tears for those types of moment in associating those moments with other things? I just don't want to cry that now, I can't.

I really like the voice over thing going on for Amanda's life and the short trailer like shots.

I'll be watching this again. That's for sure!

Amanda: You know Graham, I just broke up with someone and considering you just showed up and you're insanely good-looking and probably won't remember me anyway... I'm thinking we should have sex... If you want.
Graham: Is that a trick question?

Iris: 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.
Miles: Exactly, and on top of that there's the old standby, I can't believe a girl like that would actually be with a guy like me.

Sophie: Daddy, she has more marshmallows than I do.
Graham: No she doesn't, you each have five.
[to Amanda]
Graham: You have five too.
Amanda: Thanks

Iris: 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.

Arthur Abbott: Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, "I just need bottoms," and the woman says, "I just need a top." They look at each other and that's the 'meet cute.'

Hannah: My god, I've just noticed how pathetic you are.
Iris: Really? I'm *so* aware of it.

Amanda: Sex makes everything more complicated. Even not having it because the not having it makes it complicated.

Amanda: I'm leaving in nine days and that makes this complicated.
Graham: Ok
[they then passionately kiss]

Olivia: Mr. NAPKINHEAD!