{"id":918,"date":"2016-02-01T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T09:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=918"},"modified":"2016-02-01T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T09:55:56","slug":"love-actually-youll-feel-love-watch-london-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/love-actually-youll-feel-love-watch-london-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Actually \u2013 you\u2019ll feel love when you watch it in London, actually"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/strong> cannot remember how many times I\u2019ve watched the Love Actually movie back in my country. I even bought 5, 6 dvds back in the old days, in the fear that one of the discs might have some errors that it couldn\u2019t be played anymore. And then I found a really nice file on the Internet and downloaded it to just to keep it safe, and to watch it again and again whenever I want.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, on Christmas Eve, I decided to watch it, in London. And it was more amazing than ever before. Not because of something new in the movie that I spotted, but because it was how differently I felt from the last many times.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could see the airport and tell myself \u201cOh, I was here\u201d, I could see the streets and wonder \u201cWell, someday I\u2019ll cross that\u201d, or I could understand all the English accent spoken by the actors and fell in love with all of them right away\u2026<\/p>\n

I felt love more vividly when I saw a man expressing his love to his best friend\u2019s wife just with some carton papers.\u00a0I felt love more naive when I saw a writer jumping in the pond to help his Portuguese maid grabbing his drafts.\u00a0I felt love more funny when I saw a boy practicing how to play drums just to impress a girl-of-his-dreams.\u00a0I felt love stronger when I heard what a Prime Minister had to say about the relationship between this country and America just because of his assistant (and so cute also!).\u00a0And I felt love more hurtful when a lady kept giving up her times with the man she loved, just to run to her brother in a hospital, even if it might mean that her man would turn away from her.<\/p>\n

I felt it all, all levels of LOVE\u2026<\/p>\n

When I am here, ACTUALLY in London.<\/p>\n

Read this post and other stories on Tung\u2019s personal blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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