Happiness is not given by holidays

Athena 2022-11-19 20:02:35

It's a Christmas-heavy movie, and I've seen both the good and the heartbroken fantasy of Christmas in this movie. Christmas is a festival of reunion, love and sharing. Families and lovers give each other the joy of the festival, and the hurt is also brought by family and lovers. Under Christmas, maybe some people in some corner of the world are having a special moment. A sad experience, just like Abby. The setting of most of the plots in the movie is suitable for ordinary people, the conventional happy ending, the plot is a little old-fashioned, but the novelty is also the bright spot is that it uses the most common and common life fragments of heterosexuals in gay people. , to narrow the sense of difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality, that love is all the same. Jealousy among lovers, open and secret fights among sisters in the family, etc., all for the sake of getting the love of lovers and family members. Under the framework of the happy ending of the Chinese New Year film, family members and loved ones have successively released their previous suspicions and eliminated prejudice. Generally speaking, although the plot of the movie is old-fashioned, you can guess the ending after reading the beginning, but the Christmas atmosphere is created very well. The scenes of life are close to reality, which makes it easier for the audience to feel the emotions that the movie wants to express, so it is easy and pleasant to watch.

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Happiest Season quotes

  • John: Hey, Harper not coming out to her parents has nothing to do with you.

    Abby: How could it not?

    John: Remind me, what did your parents say when you told them you were gay?

    Abby: Um, that they loved and supported me.

    John: That's amazing! My dad kicked me out of the house and didn't talk to me for 13 years after I told him. Everybody's story is different. There's your version and my version, and everything in between. But the one thing all of those stories have in common is that moment right before you say those words. When your heart is racing and you don't know what's coming next. That moment's really terrifying! And once you say those words, you can't un-say them. A chapter has ended, and a new one's begun. You have to be ready for that. You can't do it for anyone else.

    [pauses]

    John: Just because Harper isn't ready doesn't mean she never will be, and it doesn't mean she doesn't love you.

  • Tipper: We have been so worried about seeming perfect, but maybe we don't even know what perfect is. We have one daughter who has been unhappy in a marriage and felt like she couldn't tell us! And another daughter who just had her heart broken because she was afraid we wouldn't love her if she told us the truth. And the only reason that Jane is okay is because we gave up on her after she wouldn't stop biting in preschool. That is very far from perfect, if you ask me.