Love Actually Sociologcal Analysis - 4680 Words

Love Actually Sociological Analysis Love Actually (2003), is a romantic comedy/drama that combines over ten romantic tales in one. What makes this a unique ‘chick flick’ is that all of these individual stories have different love styles and relationship types. The movie links these characters together in a series of touching and comedic romances, which end in not one, but many idealistic climaxes on Christmas Eve. The theme of the movie is an elaboration of the title, Love Actually Is All Around†, meaning that everywhere you look, love is the driving force in peoples lives. PLOT The opening scene is people greeting loved ones at the other arrival gate within Heathrow airport, narrated by one of the main characters (the prime†¦show more content†¦We discover that he has a stepson, Sam, from his deceased wife. â€Å"Bye Bye Baby† is played as Daniel and others carry the casket out of the church. It’s heartbreaking as he is holding back tears. The song helps transition into the next scene, where it is being played in a happier atmosphere at the wedding reception. Juliet and Peter are dancing as Mark is staring in an upset way. Sarah observes this and blatantly asks whether Mark is in love with Peter, which he strongly denies. Harry, who is married to Karen, works as a director for a design agency. He calls Sarah (who works for him) into his office to discuss her feelings for a co-worker, Carl. She admits she has been in love wit him every since she began working at the agency. Everyone including Carl knows, and Harry tells Sarah to do som ething about it, and ask Carl out. She then answers a phone, calling the caller â€Å"babe†, and leaves you wondering is she has children. She answers her phone every 5 minutes throughout the film for this particular person, where as it is seen as an inconvenience to her own life. Billy Mack is being interviewed about his song at a radio station. It is apparent that nobody is a big fan of the song, including Billy Mack himself. He then discusses how he thinks he will be forever alone in result of him being greedy and foolish when he was young and successful. He discloses that he wants his song to be a hit so that for once young pop stars won’t take the title. His