Only talk about the holiday, not the ending

Adalberto 2022-04-20 09:01:25

The movie is called The Holiday, and it is an American romantic film that has received good reviews recently. The lineup of Carmeron Diatze, Jew Delaw, Kate Wenslet, and Jack Black is not luxurious, but it is eye-catching. The plot of the story is also very simple. It borrows the practice of exchanging houses and vacations, which is very popular in many European and American countries, as the main line of the story: on Christmas Eve, two well-educated, beautiful but not young women are broken in love at the same time. Weeping in an old cottage full of English country vibes on the outskirts of London, one rages in a luxury villa in Los Angeles' Hollywood celebrity enclave. Crying is the editor of a magazine played by Kate, who has a British classical temperament. She has fallen in love with a male colleague for three years and has a new love. She announced the news of her engagement at the magazine's party. She entangled with him. The precious youth And all the silent help to the man at work all this time was in vain. A very prominent example of giving 100% for love but losing of ego. Angry is the successful and wealthy Hollywood Gold Trailor Maker (film promotion film producer) played by American sweetheart Cameron, who was betrayed by her boyfriend and pointed to the nose by her boyfriend and condemned as a selfish workaholic, so no man can last long. put up with her. An overly tough, overly rational, over ego conciousness typical. Both depressed women decide to spend their Christmas holidays somewhere else. So Kate posted a photo of her room and the announcement of a house swap on the Internet, and Carmeron happened to google the announcement. The two women were eager to leave the sad place, so they hit it off and embarked on a house swap journey together the next day. .

The plot develops logically. Both women meet their own love at the resort. This is nothing new, but the rare thing is that the film carefully tailors different Mr. Right for them, and makes their love a reality. A cure for their character flaws, perhaps to the liking of every love optimist like me, because I've always believed that love should be the inner drive to make one more perfect. What is even more rare is that in addition to love, the film also allows them to rediscover the friendship and family in their lives, thus making the entire film structure more full.

Kate met the talented and humorous film scorer played by Jack Black in Los Angeles, began to support and care for each other like a lighthearted friend, and then gradually fell in love, although the two faced old lovers in the middle and wanted to go back. The choice to compound, but in the end they insisted on choosing each other. Kate not only found love, but also met an old man who was always walking around with a cane. This humble old man was once a very famous screenwriter in Hollywood. He started writing scripts from the golden age of Hollywood. There are also several golden statues in the house. But this old man who lives alone seems to have lost interest and fun in life, and Kate invited the old man to have dinner with her because he was a newcomer and wanted to meet some friends to avoid boredom. During the banquet, the two talked very happily. The old man seemed to be alive because of the company of young women, and Kate also fully told the old man about his unfortunate experience because he had a partner to talk to. After listening to the old man, he encouraged her to say, that man is too stupid, you should be playing the heroine at first glance, how can you keep playing the supporting actress. For Kate, this sentence is like lifting the pot. She finally understands that she should be the heroine in her own life, not the supporting actress in other people's lives. And then Kate in turn encouraged the old man to practice walking without crutches, and then took Kate's arm in spirit and walked into the venue of the celebration party to greet him... This pair of year-end friends makes people revisit The biggest definition of friendship, encourage each other, recognize each other, and make each other more powerful. The double harvest of love and friendship makes Kate more confident, her self is no longer lost, and she is the heroine of her life from now on.


Carmeron met Kate's brother, played by Jew Delaw, an "insanely handsome" man. Because he didn't know about his sister's change of room and vacation, he got drunk at a bar in the middle of the night and knocked on his sister as usual. The door of the house, I plan to stay overnight, who knows that the door is indeed an American beauty with an American accent. I often feel that English is the same as Chinese. Its charm lies in its subtlety and conciseness. Often a word contains a lot of hints, which makes people endlessly imaginative. For example, in this "Insanely handsome", the adjective Insane means irrational, and when it becomes an adverb of degree to modify "handsome", at least two levels of meaning can be drawn. , one is "so handsome that people lose their minds". So when Carmeron said "and you're insanely handsome" to Jew Delaw, we knew that this "unreasonably handsome man" had become a spell that drowned out Carmeron's over-reasonableness. The development of Xiangyan has also become an expected thing. Of course, there are always difficulties in the development of this pair, and reason often rises from Carmeron's heart, constantly reminding her, and letting her keep reminding her lover that this is only a short vacation, and they shouldn't take it too seriously. But at the end of the last vacation, Carmeron turned around from the way to the airport and ran back to the cabin she just left. We saw that her reason also bowed to her feelings, and she said goodbye to the "Iron Woman" era.

In the main thread of this love story, there is also a small episode in which Carmeron feels family love again. When she visited Jew Delaw's house, she was surprised to find that this charming British man was actually the father of three little girls. He took care of the children independently after his wife's death. The napkin wrapped the head dress to be Mr.Napkin, and the carmenron's carmenron's caring and sweet gestures by the three little girls made Carmeron feel the warmth of her long-lost family again. It is commendable that an impressive little detail is used here. The three little girls told Carmeron that the three of them had the name "Three Musketeers", and it happened that when Carmeron was a child, their family called themselves "Three Musketeers". swordsman". Of course, after her parents divorced, the "Three Musketeers" ceased to exist, and hearing this title again at this time, and it was spoken by her lover's child, was tantamount to reliving a very iconic old dream. While making people feel warm and affectionate, they also have to sigh that fate is really a series of coincidences? Speaking of details, this film also has an ingenious detail. Carmeron, as a workaholic Trailor Producer, when she is thinking, she can't help but hear the Trailor with her own story echoing in her mind, which makes people frequently smile.

The story goes on in two threads until Kate gets a call from Carmeron and her brother at the same time, clumsily switching between the two lines (which can also be seen as an implicit switch between the two threads, Because the word "line" is used for both lines and clues in English), but it was very unsuccessful, so I told Carmeron what I should say to my brother, and the two story lines were mixed together, so when the movie ends, we watch When Kate arrived, he took Jack back to London to celebrate New Year's Eve with his brother and Carmeron. This is the end of the movie, and while everyone in the show is faced with the big puzzle of how to deal with geography at the end of the holidays, you can't blame the director or writer for being irresponsible, because the movie's name has long since made innocence Statement, "The Holiday", they are only responsible for telling the story that happened in Holiday, the rest is entirely up to the audience to imagine.

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The Holiday quotes

  • Miles: [reaching across Iris to grab something on counter] Okay, sorry about that.

    [pregnant pause]

    Miles: Boob graze.

    [Iris briefly surprised, then burst into merry laughter, with Miles joining in with a chuckle]

    Miles: That was accidental.

    [gazing around with sheepish smile]

    Miles: Accidental boob graze. I'm sorry.

    Iris: Change of subject.

    [trying to restrain laughter]

    Miles: Okay.

  • Jasper: You know what I was thinking? When you get back to London, maybe we could sneak off somewhere together. Maybe Venice. You and me in Venice could be good.

    Iris: Do you mean that? I mean, are you free to do that?

    Jasper: Darling, I've just traveled halfway across the world to see you, haven't I?

    Iris: [Iris & Jasper almost kiss before Iris pulls away] Yeah, that doesn't exactly answer my question. So, are you not with Sarah anymore? I mean, is that what you've come here to tell me?

    Jasper: I wish you could just accept knowing how confused I am about all this.

    Iris: Okay, let me translate that. So, you are still engaged to be married?

    Jasper: Yes, but, I mean...

    Iris: Oh, my God.

    [Iris gets up from the couch]

    Iris: This was a really close call. You know, I never really though I'd say this, literally never, but I think you were absolutely right about us. Very square peg, very round hole.

    Jasper: You cannot mean that.

    Iris: The great thing is I actually do. And I'm about three years late in telling you this, but nevertheless I need to say it. Jasper. Wait, I need the lights on. Jasper, you have never treated me right. Ever.

    Jasper: Oh, babe.

    Iris: 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.

    [Picks up Jasper's jacket, walking to the door]

    Iris: And you're not going to be in it.

    Jasper: Darling.

    Iris: Now I've got somewhere really important to be, and you have got to get the hell out.

    [Opens the door]

    Iris: Now!

    Jasper: What exactly has got into you?

    Iris: I don't know.

    [Pushes Jasper out the door]

    Iris: But I think what I've got is something slightly resembling, gumption.

    [Slams door shut in Jasper's face. Lifts hands up and screams with joy]