Love Actually

Fun fact: the relationships from Love Actually are meant to convey the many types of love. For example: love at first sight, unrequited love, infatuation, etc.

There are at least a dozen forms of love depicted in the movie:

Marital Love: Keira Knightley marrying her hubby


Unrequited Love: Keira Knightley and her husband's best friend


Love at First Sight: Hugh Grant (the Prime Minister) and his tea and biscuits server


Workplace Love: John and Judy, the standins for the sex scenes that fall in love while working together.


Familial Love: Liam Neeson and his (step)son deal with the grief of losing Mom


Physical Love: Colin (the British guy) comes to America to get up on hot girls from Wisconsin.


Long Distance Love: Colin Firth and his Portuguese helper:


Sacrificial Love: Laura Linney giving up her crush on her coworker to be with her institutionalized brother.


Cheatin' Love: Alan Rickman being tempted by his secretary.


Infatuation: Liam Neeson's stepson having a crush on the best singer in his class


Taken-for-Granted Love: Emma Thompson about to realize that her husband (Alan Rickman) is having an affair


Platonic Love: Bill Nighy (the rock and roll singer) and his manager:


(I thought these two were actually secretly in gay love, but Wikipedia says that it's platonic, so it must be true. Apparently, straight men like to get drunk and

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watch porn together.)

I've experienced 9 out of the 12 forms of love (as defined by Love Actually)... how about you?