12 days before Christmas and as everything shows, this Festive season will be very different from what we are used to in previous years, without this preventing us from enjoying them to the fullest! Sometines, our needs and desires come into a conflict, but we know the best thing we have to do, is to stay home and discover new ways to spent our free time nicely.
So, if you have plenty of free time too and you have no idea how to spend it, it’s the perfect timing to sit comfortable on your couch and start your movie-marathon as you eat your hot handmade pop corns. At least, that’s what I did and I really enjoyed it.
I felt the nostalgia to travel back in time and watch again the classic romcom movies that I’ve forgotten or movies that even though they are really popular, I’ve never had the chance to watch them. So it’s time to share with you some of them below!
“Pretty Woman” or a modern Cinderella
The first movie on my list is Pretty Woman, which was my first time watching. A different, slightly more modern version of Cinderella, a romantic comedy of 1990, starring the epic duet of the 90’s, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. A charming man accidentally meets a young girl on the streets of Los Angeles. Two very different people whose fate brought them together and maybe that was the best thing that could have happened to them because by combining their cultures and personalities, they learned from each other and they created a beautiful relationship of love and romance at the same time.
This movie caused me an innocent excitement and made me thinking that I should never not stop waiting for a happy ending! It reminded me that there is always space for dreaming, even in the bad days. It was a reminder for me to say everything that I feel, never give up and try to be the best of myself. This movie might feels a bit unreal to some of you, and yes it’s a like a fairytale, but sometimes it’s ok to believe in fairytales. Right?
“Love actually” One title, ten different stories
It took me some time to understand how the film goes on, as it unfolds through many different stories, which emerge one after the other and in the end they create the one and only! I was trying to find out the connection between each story, but it wasn’t obvious so I imagined that something else was hidden behind them.
Through London’s Christmas spirit and through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, I realized that what the film was trying to saw me was that everyone has the right to love, young or old, free, married or divorced. Each of us can find love anywhere and especially when we do not expect it. Even you, that right now you’re not feeling lucky enough, you have to continue believe in love, hoping that the universe will be by your side. Because as they say, “we accept the love that we believe that we deserve.” You just need to really believe in it and then it will certainly find you suddenly and unexpectedly!
“One Day” or Day 1;
After am unusual meet-up and a rather awkward night, Dexter and Emma became best friends. For the next 20 years from their first meeting, they remained faithful on their meeting date, which was every year at the 15th of July. They would meet up each year on this date to share what they have achieved or not. Both they were a strong support to each other, rewarding victories, inspiring in failures, creating experiences together and apart, the years passed but the “innocent” youthful flirtation never got lost between them. Maybe their choices always had a bad timing, negatively affecting their relationship and driving them apart for months, but it was certain that the two would end up together-one day-. And if something it’s really worthy from this story, is that sometimes love is hidden in the most intimate places, to the most intimate faces, in the person that stands by our side through the years, until we suddenly look at him and we realize that he was what we were asking for.
Even though both of them have tried a lot, they did not find in anyone else what they were seeing in one another. They never felt for someone else the majestic and peaceful feelings they nurtured between them. That’s because, above all, they truly and unconditionally loved each other. This is what made Emma forgive him for everything, and Dexter just wanted to make her happy. “You are one in a million” had whispered to him and from that moment their relationship was never the same again.
Until the next time, I can find myself in a dark room of a cinema, watching movies at home by myself or with friends, will remain for me the perfect scenario for the cold winter-quarantine-nights! After all, movies are always an opportunity for inner introspection, a fun occasion for discussion, a motivation for new beginnings, and a source of hope that the best is yet to come – if they are not already here!
