Love Actually

Love Actually follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Director: Richard Curtis
Main Characters: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightly, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman.

The opening to the movie doesn't show any main characters, or gives off anything about the actual movie. Its set in an airport during the arrival of the passengers, a montage of when they see family, friends, lovers again after being separated from them. People are hugging, kissing showing how much they love each other, hence the name of the film- love, everyone is smiling with joy, others are crying with joy that they are together again with the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and families welcome their arriving loved ones. The voice over is David (Hugh Grant) speaking as the main character, he player the prime minister, taking about love is always around whether we can see it or not.

 

This is the dialogue in the opening:

....Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,

I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport.
General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed,
but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere.
Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy,
but it's always there - fathers and sons,
mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.
When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know,
none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love.
If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around...
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