The HOLIDAY
“The holiday” is a 2006 produced
American comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyer, a famous film
director. Production on the movie began in Los Angeles, then moved to England
for a month before completing filming back in California. The main characters
in this movie are: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. In
London, Iris Simpkins (played by Kate Winslet), write a wedding column in a
newspaper and has an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Nearby
Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged and will marry another
colleague, and so her life turns head over heels. In Los Angeles, the
movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods (played by Cameron Diaz) has just broken up with
her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Amanda access a house
exchange website, and impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris' cottage in Surrey
for the holiday along the next two weeks. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris'
brother and book editor Graham (played by Jude Law) and they fall in love for each other.
Meanwhile Iris meet her next door neighbor, the ninety year old screenplay
writer Arthur (played by Jack Black), who helps her to retrieve her
self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, and they fall in love for each other.
So this called “Home exchange” got more and more famous the last few years. It
is the practice that refers to the swapping of homes on a temporary or more
permanent basis. Not everybody feels comfortable with the fact that someone the
person doesn´t know lives in his/her house. These two women in the movie see
that Home exchange as a new chance, to flee from all their problems, just to be
far away where each of them can think clearly. When the women first arrived to
their new place, they were really surprised because nobody of the two did
expect a house like this in any way. Both places are really different. There is
those lovely and tiny building from Iris; a tranquil cottage close to London
with the establishment which is very ordinary and rural. The structure from
Amanda is quite the opposite; a huge and magnificent Hollywood mansion in LA.
Wherever you look you can see expensive and qualitative Designer Furniture. The
two woman were quite shocked when they saw their new home but no one actually
got home sick; no, they saw that as a exciting and uncertain experience. As the
buildings are totally different also the two main female characters were not
cut from the same timber. Iris is for sure the one who is more calm and
sensitive; she is in love with her co-worker Jasper but this love remains
unrequited. That´s also the reason why she wants to leave the country for a
while. Amanda is like quite more injured; she was cheated by her boyfriend
Ethan and that´s why she is really depressed but can´t even cry. In her despair
she also decided to live out the Christmas time far away. In my opinion this is
such a great movie. I love the characters in general and I think the plot is
very interesting and romantic. I can just advice everybody to watch it and make
your own image of it.
No comments:
Post a Comment