Notting_Hill_Review

Most people think that the world of the rich and famous is really fascinating. Most of us think that rich people must be happy because they can have anything what they want. Their dreams can come true. We think that famous people are like princesses and princes. Most people, especially women, likes tales about rich prince who falls in love with poor woman, they get married, have many children and live in a beautiful castle. In the film I would talk about we have similar story but in this case we have a rich princess and a poor man. “Notting Hill”, the film I will talk about, is a schematic romantic comedy where action is so slack and static that every scene ambles interminably. The film offers no surprises. Julia Roberts plays Anna Scott, the world's most famous, glamorous, successful and popular actress (she is our princess) who is somehow able to walk freely (without bodyguards) around one of the largest cities in the world for three-fourths of the movie with nary a photographer, journalist or curiosity seeker in tow. One day she finds herself in the Notting Hill William's (he is our poor man, who the princess will fall in love with.) small, failing travel bookstore. William Thacker is charmed by her immediately, and also flustered. According to his good English manners he does not let on that he knows who she is. She buys a book and leaves. A few minutes after, he bumps into her on the street, spilling orange juice all over her white T-shirt. Luckily (how could it be otherwise), his house is just a few blocks away, so she can change her clothes there. This serendipitous double whammy begins are so exasperating, and desperately predictable that I can not stand them. As I said before Anna Scott is a star. We are informed about it in a tacky opening montage of flashbulb explosions and magazine covers. William Thacker is a divorced man who owns a not very profitable travel bookshop. When their paths cross, the couple comes to face the ultimate question: can two people fall in love with the whole world watching' I have another one: “Do exist a more silly question in the world then that'”. It is so banal and trite, the ending is such a sure thing. But should we expect more from a romantic comedy' They luckily do not hit it off immediately. They are guarded and wary at first, and they gradually grow warm and even affectionate as their feelings begin to manifest. They have many difficulties to confess love to each other (how could it be otherwise): She is surrounded by a phalanx of publicists and agents because of a interviews with her so Thacker pretends to be a journalist (from the magazine about horses). They finally met. They finally confess each other to love BUT then Anna's boyfriend appeared. This is a dramatic moment. This is the end. The end of a growing love. The viewers should feel disappointment and embitterment. But we should remember that we are watching romantic comedy so it can not end in a such way. There must be happy end. True love must win! And it wins. After many difficulties, the most sentimental and trashy phrases I have ever heard ( for example: “I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her”), finally important questions asked by William (at last he declares his love – at a press conference) they decide to be together and even to get married and have a child.