The Holiday

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• Movie: The Holiday
• Director: Nanncy Meyers
• Release Date: December 8, 2006
• Runtime: 136 min
• Language: English
• Country: United States

The Holiday. My favorite freakin movie all time. Where should I actually began? The amazing cast? The heart-warming stories? The great soundtrack? Ah surely don’t know where to began. Bagaiman dimulai dengan betapa cintanya banget gw sama film ini! I think I’ve watched more than 10x, and bahkan kayaknya once every 2 month gw nonton deh film ini. Apa lagi everytime I flick the channels across the TV and I happen to see this on TV.. gw pasti selalu nonton sampai selesai HIHI padahalbisa aja kemarenya abis nonton tapi ntah kenapa pengen aja lagi :D

Let’s start what the movie is really about. Dari judulnya aja of course “The Holiday” so it has to be a story about someone one’s or some people’s holiday. Kalau penjelasan super singkatnya dari IMDB adalah..

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.

Ya sebenernya cukup  menjelaskan inti movienya ya? HAHA.Owkay here's a more detailed explanation about the movie. So there's 4 main charachters. There's Amanda (played by Cameron Diaz) who lives in LA, an owner of a movie company (which I guess made trailers) who broke up with her boyfriend because he was cheated with his secretary, devastated and stressed out..she wants to take a sudden vacation. (Bahasanya sih vacation banget ya.. padahal sebenernya mau kabur dari kenyataan HAHA) A peace of quiet. Time to think. Well on the other side of the world in England, is Iris (played by Kate Winslet) who i think kayaknya an editior in some publishing warehosue gitu deh ya... who also had her heartbroken because her ex (who she's still madly in love with and I guess everybody could actually see how head over heels she is with him) got engaged and she has to be the one to cover the story.

So they exchange houses, cars, and many more. Amanda went to London whilst Iris goes to L.A. But a turn-on of events comes up when.. Amanda slowly falls in love with Iris's brother (which btw is played by the most glorious and of course insanely good-looking guy, Jude Law. On the other hand, Iris also started to fall in love with Miles, which is Amanda's co/worker (or Ethan's Friend // sedikit lupa sih. And which btw Ethan is Amanda's ex. The one who;s cheating on her.  Okay, so that's about it for the movie's plot story.

Gw sih kalau patah hati ngga kayak gini. To be honest gw ga pernah sih patah hati, more like filled with rage and hatred to one particular guy.

Basically, ini salah satu film top favorit gw banget. I even love the openings scenenya! And here's the opening narration.

I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.


TEEHEE! Kepanjangan emang tapi tetap aja I love it. Well it's like what people, if you really love something. Apapun tentang itu juga bakal lo bilang bagus. I can say this movie has no flaw, karena gw suka BANGET BANGET BANGET,

Bukannya kita semua pernah berangan2 kalau saat kita lagi ke negeri asing ntah dimana (more likely negara yang jauh banget dari negara asal kita and where we don;t even speak the same language (so malaysia/singapore is not included) kita itu kenalan sama a total stranger and we fall in love with each other. Pernah kah? Pasti hampir semua orang pernah. I mean, who doesn't? I like that feelig. The feeling of falling in love with someone so fast and so sudden that you don't even realize it. Walaupun gw ga pernah mrasakan hal seperti itu tapi seengaknya THe Holiday bisa memberikan sebuah gambaran bagaimana rasanya perasaan itu. Gambarannya deh.. tentunya gw ga bisa rasain beneran but at least I can picture or better yet, felt it. 

I like how well-connected the cast are. Chemistry menurut gw dapet banget! Sudah suatu kebiasaan (atau bahkan kewajiban) buat gw, kalau tiap kali gw selesai noton malem pasti gw liat2 trivianya di IMDB. Dan..  I came across the fact kalau sebenernya the writer of "The Holiday" write the story with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, and Jude Law in mind. SAfe to say that this movie si meant for them. And I think the did an incredible job! 

Come on, kapan lagi liat Kate Winslet jadi cewek galau sampai yang harus pindah ke benua lain to get over a break up? Kapan lagi liat Jude Law jadi this sexy Dad who raises 2 daughters on his own? Kapan lagi liat Jack Black yang ga terlalu.. komedian banget perannya? And as for Cameron Diaz, personally menurut gw ini bukan a new side of her. Tapi this Amanda character who's someone afraid to fall in love itu diperankan pretty well by Cameron Diaz. So the conclusion is.. I FREAKIN LOVE THE CAST. 

The story's not that cliche. Well cliche juga sih sebenernya cuman ada beberapa part yang "adds up the spices to the story". Gw suka sama adaya tokoh "Arthur" di film ini. Arthur ini adalah seorang kakek tua yang tinggal deket rumahnya Amanda. So ceritanya one day Iris ngliat si Arthur ini kebingungan di side walk and she offers to walk him home. Turns out ternyata he was someone big in the biz hollywood world, but he lives alone because his wife died a long time ago. So. Iris and Arthur got into a pretty close friendly relationship with each other. Enter Miles, yang sehingga akhirnya Iris makin deket dengan Miles dikarenakan juga dengan hubungannya dengan Arthur. (I'm not going to spoil the story so you better watch it yet ;) I like how the writers of the movie write the plot story for the relationship between Miles-Iris-Arthur. It helps the us (the viewer) to see how actually genuinely nice and such a good person Miles and Iris is.

This movie is actually a "feel-good" type of move. You know what I mean right?
So go on. Rent It. Buy It. Download It. WATCH IT!

And if the reasons I wrote down here wasn't good enough to convice you guys that this is a splendid movie.. well than it;s your loss. 

*****************  Will be update with GIF(s) and PIC(s) soon!

Sebenernya kita semua tau klimaks masalahnya dimana. We all know pretty sure that kalau Amanda and Iris itu sama2 lagi on the holiday. So how were they going to continue the relationship?