Classic Feel Good Chick Flick

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2017)

This week I chose to watch The Holiday (2006). The logline goes "Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love." This movie made me feel sympathetic towards the main characters as they went through their respective issues. It made me think about the state of the world when it comes to relationships. The editing was good and was pretty seamless. This marks the best editors. As I watched through this movie I found the sound design to be very intentional. There was a heavy play of dialogue and music, and most of the rest of the sound effects were subtle and seemed distant in comparison. This directing choice to keep the dialogue and music as the auditory objects of focus played well to a dialogue centric movie. However, I did find in certain parts that the absence of sound effects in favor of music felt a little strange in some parts, like when the girls were first exploring the homes. I would have liked to hear more sound effects through those parts. Otherwise I thought it was great.