kontextmaschine:

Love, Actually really pops as the overstuffed Hallmark Channel Christmas movie it is when you watch it in HD

I’d only heard of it but watching for the first time it’s really striking how this ties in with Bridget Jones’ Diary and SATC and the actual presidency of Bill Clinton (and leads into Dov Charney?, but def. 50 Shades and def. DEF. Jim & Pam) as this distinctively ‘90s girl dream that even though you’re lumpy you can win at life by “stealing” a high-status man you work for by being better than his social-climbing class-mates at performing humanhood sympathetic with him and this is a feminist success

(RELATED: the classic ‘80s nerd-dream of “stealing” a beautiful woman by performing humanhood better than their social-climbing jock/yuppie class-mates)