#Flashback Friday - 'Love Actually' Edition

The strangest Plus One at a wedding?
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Long before a zombie apocalypse would have him running around the woods in the United States trying to stay alive to fight another day -

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....Andrew Lincoln was across the pond, planning a wedding day surprise for the lovely and angelic Keira Knightly on the big day.....

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.....One problem: his best friend was the groom who would ultimately kiss the bride and carry her over the proverbial threshhold, not Mark (Lincoln)  himself!

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Ahhhh, forbidden love! He does find a way (half-adorably, half-creepily) to let his feelings be known and after his romantic/restraining-order-worthy grand gesture, the part of me that wasn't slightly uncomfortably wondered just what would've happened if HE was the one to put the ring on her finger instead of his best friend Peter (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor)

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'Love Actually' was released during prime holiday season in November 2003 and it would end up becoming one of those movies you can watch all 365 days a year.   It's a collection of love stories featuring a series of couples that are exhilarating, heartbreaking, maddening, cliche, intoxicating and all-too-familiar to the broken hearted, and the Juliet (Knightley) and Mark (Lincoln) chapter was a master class in unrequited love.  Peter asks his best friend and best man Mark to videotape his wedding and not only does he record the wedding, but he arranges a swoon-y and charming rendition of  the Beatles' classic, 'All You Need Is Love" that unfolds in the church in the loveliest way for the newly minted bride and groom.

Love, love, love..Its easy (to smile when you watch this!)

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Limited interactions lead us to believe that Mark doesn't like Juliet but as the story progresses, Juliet approaches Mark to get a copy of the video he shot of the wedding because the photographers messed their pictures up. He tries to lie to her and act as though he doesn't know where the video is, but she finds the video in kind of plain view in his apartment. and as she watches it, she slowly discovers that not only does Mark NOT dislike her, he does in fact like her.  A LOT.  The video gives away, with every shot of her, his surprisingly strong feelings towards her.

Subtitled but the message is clear: He's smitten with you, Juliet!

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Awkwardness ensues and he takes off, literally leaving her alone in his apartment to absorb his video love letter to her...... Until he pops up on Christmas Eve with a silent message for her.....

 

Sweet and slightly sinister, or is it just me?!

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As he walks away saying, "Enough.  Enough now." we know that their first kiss will be their last kiss.  But in the silence after the kiss before she goes back to her house, that's when the mind starts to wander and ponder the 'what ifs' ands maybe that's what makes it so perfect. One gesture, one kiss, one moment that really and truly has no hope or agenda, a moment that just .... is. In a blink, a beginning and an end. I can live with that. *sigh*

Yep. This is good with. One... and done!
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So, our #Flashback Friday is all about a boy... declaring his love to a girl.... while her husband watches the telly nearby.  Ain't love grand?!?

Wishing you a day as limitless as you are~
Lisa and April