The Wallflower Report

So it’s like four in the morning on Christmas and I just got done watching a movie called Love, Actually. Though I guess that might sound it was actually just called Love. So to make it clear, the name of the movie is actually Love, Actually.

Really.

I wanted to watch Muppet Christmas Carol but I got outvoted. Oh well. I guess Christmas is just the time of year you have to remember what’s important. That’s why next year I’m remembering to hide all the other Christmas DVDs.

It was not actually a bad movie but it was weird seeing Alan Rickman playing a normal middle aged guy instead of like an angel or wizard or German or some other kind of supernatural creature. Though in that one movie I guess he only played a guy who played an alien.

The movie had lots of different characters involved in different interconnected and interweaved plots about being British and in love at Christmas. For instance there was a ten year old boy who was apparently raised by Liam Neeson and soppy romance movies and Hugh Grant playing the Prime Minister who was related to the woman that Alan Rickman was thinking of cheating on. It’s a very complicated movie but with a redeeming message about love and airports.

I’ve always thought that airports are pretty uplifting because with the little stores and food places and kiosks and things they’re kind of like shopping malls where the stores are spaced far apart and don’t sell very many different things. And because people are always hurrying around with their arms full of packages it’s kind of like going to the mall around Christmas any time of the year. So even though there were no Muppets the movie actually kind of like resonated with me, you know, on that level.

Also there was a redeeming message about how easy it is to get a girlfriend in the American midwest if you can talk with a British accent. I wonder if I trade in all my presents, would it be enough for a dialect coach?

Oh yeah and Pee Ess:

God bless us, everyone!

~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower

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