LOVE MOVIE

LOVE ACTUALLY 

Love actually is a romantic comedy that was relased on 2003 and was directed by Richard Curtis. 
This movie contains several little love stories happening on Christmas and involving different characters, which at the and are all kind of connected.

As there are different stories, not all the stories have the same kind of love.

Those are the different stories:

The wedding story

The main characters  are Juliet, Mark and Peter. Juliet and Peter get married but after that, Mark, Peter's best friend who's also in love with Juliet, tells her that he loves her. It's an unrequited love, because Juliet is already married to Peter, his friend.

The medium-aged couple story

Harry and Karen are a happy married couple with two kids, but one day, Karen discovers that Harry cheated on her with a girl who works with him. After she discovers it, Harry realizes the big mistake he has made, and they finally stay together. The love in this story is the one named Pragma, love which endures. This love is common in married couples, love which endures in sickness and in health. Karen decides to forgive Harry because she loves him, and she doesn't want to ruin all the years of marriage. 

The new father and the first love story

Daniel loses his wife, Joanna, because of an illness and he has to take care of Sam, Joanna's son. During the movie, their relationship gets everytime better and they get more confident with each other, growing a paterno-filial love relationship. Besides, Sam starts liking a girl in his class, which is a first love or childhood love.

The inter-status relationship story

The love story between David, the recently new Prime Minister and Natalie, his assistant. As they work together and he's the Prime Minister and she's just a simple assistant, their love is an imposible love.

The international story

Jaime, a writer, decides to spend some time in France, to disconnect of everything, because his wife has cheated on him. There, he meets Aurélia, the Portuguese housekeeper of the house he's staying in, and although they speak different languages and can't understand each other, they fall in love. This is romantic love or also known as Eros love, which starts first with attraction, as the characters don't understand each other, and then in can turn to other kinds of love based in more things than just attraction, as it happens in the movie. 

The American adventure story

Colin, after not having any success in relationships, decides to go to America and try to find love there. Although his friend Tony says to him that it's not a good idea, he travels to America anyways and there he meets Harriet. Their love is mostly passional or Ludus love, based on the attraction and on wanting to have fun. 

The fraternal love story

The story of Sarah, a girl who has been in love for years with Karl, a man who works with her. She finally gets a date with him, but they are interrupted all the time by Sarah's brother phone calls. Michael, the brother, suffers a mental illness and Sarah, even though Karl asks her to not pick up the phone, answers everytime, because she worries about him. At the begining, there is platonic love, because she has been in love with Karl for years, but then it turns to be a fraternal love story, because Sarah wants to make sure that her brother is fine, even though it makes Karl angry and decides to end with the date. 

The rocker story

This one is about Billy Mack, a rockstar, and his manager and friend Joe. The love in this story is friends love, because we can see how Billy, on Christmas Day, instead of going to a party with famous people, stays with Joe, who's kind of depressed and supports him.

                                           The love and sex story

John and Judy meet in the shooting of a sex scene for a movie, in which they work as extras. In front of the camera, they are both comfortable and outgoing, because it's their job, but when the camera is off they are very shy. Their love story has Storage love, because they get to know each other and they end up dating because they share likes and dislikes, and their personalities seem to fit.