Reminds me of someone special.

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2004)

As 'Notting Hill' is a romantic comedy, it is often assumed that it is a "chicks-flick". Afterall, isn't it women who usually like movies such as this? Well yes, but I'm sure there are many guys out there who also love it - and I am one of them.
I guess everyone, at some point in their lives, falls in love with someone else, and this movie is a genuine and heartfelt look at how that love begins, grows, suffers and ultimately triumphs. Well, that's how things happen in the movies, real life is often not that perfect, but that's the whole point for movies show us what might be.
The characters Hugh Grant and Julie Roberts play are so similar to myself and a woman I was very much in love with for a long time - and still am. There is a scene at Hugh's place, on the roof actually, where they are going over her lines for a new movie she is about to begin. Everything about them in that scene, their personalities, their way of speaking to each other, even their clothing is a mirror of me and that woman who I was once with. Watching 'Notting Hill' reminds me of our time together.
'Notting Hill' is a very 'English' movie, full of English sensibilities, humour and characters. I love it for its wonderful depiction of how love might be for us all.