Hand Me Some Of That Fairy Coal

Just saw The Holiday starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black. (Beautiful people make me ache. Well, Jack Black not so much. But his unbridled humor makes him sexy.) For the 10th time, romantic comedies are not my thing. I mean, Jude Law, insanely attractive, a sensitive single dad who cries??! Come on. The audience is hopeful. Not idiotic.

And that's the whole point to chick flicks, isn't it. A little hope. And i have to admit, even though this film is the ultimate clichéd fantasy of going to a foreign land and falling in love with a stranger (because your life sux so, nothing good could possibly happen on the homeland), i want to believe it. All the coincidental puzzle pieces that miraculously fall into place. And all you needed was a little London snow and a whole lot of Santa Ana gusts.

But most of all i think it's because there's some psychotherapy in there. Can never resist a little cinematic psychotherapy. People get weaned off toxic relationship cycles and make honest connections despite baggage all the time! And sure, long-distance relationships work out. Even when they're bicontinental. Why not?

And clever, to set it against the backdrop of the holidays (hence the title of the film). Because there's just something in the air around that time of year, isn't there. I have to confess that before long i was humming "Santa Baby" while making a second martini in the kitchen. Yes, magical. Probably why that's the time of year when suicide rates skyrocket.

All that said, great film! It made me laugh and got me choked up at times. Go rent it sometime!