Why there's always an excuse for watching "Love actually", Part I

So Christmas now definitely is over.  All the presents are unwrapped and eaten,worn or lost, the money your grandparents sent you is spent on junk food and beer, you're back in your own flat where your dad doesn't make lame jokes about your makeup and your mum can't moan about your ripped tights (I'm not being "rebellious", mom, I just can't afford a new pair every day!). 

But even after you have scrubbed the puke from your bathroom's wall and gotten your friends away from your sofa, there's always a way to keep that magical winter holiday-feeling inside you: No, it's not drugs (although it's not my responsibility what you do with your quitting time), it's so much cheaper: Richard Curtis' fabulous film Love actually.

For all those pitiful creatures out there who don't know this masterpiece of pop culture yet: In Love actually, twelve stories are told, every single one telling of love. There's the little boy who falls in love with the coolest girl in the whole school, the secretary who tries to seduce her boss, the prime minister who falls for the woman wo serves the tea (when Hugh Grant says "Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?" and Martine McCutcheon walks in with a shy smile, it is so damn clear that they'll be a great couple).

Here are ten reasons why sitting on the sofa and watching this greatest christmas movie of all time can never be wrong, even if it's 30 degrees out there and your butt sticks at the cushion:

1)Heike Makatsch as the slutty secretary. Probably the coolest and most beautiful German in the world. In Alles ist Liebe ("Everything's Love"), a German version of Love actually from 2014, she plays the betrayed wife. That's so ridicilous. Which man would ever be so stupid to cheat on wonderful Heike???

2)The Beach Boy's God only knows, which is played in the final scene showing hundreds of people hugging each other on Heathrow airport. Saying "God only knows what I'd be without you" is the most beautiful way to declare your love to somebody.

3) The hilarious conversations between Colin Firth and Lúcia Moniz.While he only speaks English, she only speaks Portuguese, but that doesn't prevent them from talking to each other. When he wants to thank her for helping him, she says in Portuguese she'd like to have 50% of the profit from his new book. Meanwhile he says in English he's thinking about giving her 5%.

4) When Kris Marshall, who plays a complete loser in his early twenties, desperate for sex, talks to a woman on a wedding, unselling the food. She turns out to be the cook.

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