Love Actually, which Haley wrote about over the weekend, is a collection of loosely overlapping stories with a common theme. Or at least that’s the idea. Haley writes that “perhaps the movie’s many plotlines are irrational, silly even — just like love.” The movie is an undeniable technical accomplishment, but a lot of what passes for love in its stories is unconvincing.
This is hardly surprising given that the screenplay was written by Richard Curtis, who wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), the happy ending of which rejects the institution of marriage, and whose philosophy of love is likely radically different from that of many readers of this magazine. But back to Love Actually.
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