I was suddenly recommended to watch a Christmas movie, the funny thing is that the recommender was a man my age, in particular sentimentality still not noticed. I watched it, but I am still confused. This is a British film, in the Russian box office called “Christmas for two”, in fact Last Christmas, ie “Last Christmas”, American director
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I was suddenly recommended to watch a Christmas movie, the funny thing is that the recommender was a man my age, in particular sentimentality still not noticed. I watched it, but I am still confused. This is a British film, in the Russian box office called “Christmas for two”, in fact Last Christmas, ie “Last Christmas”, American director Paul Figue, based on the song of the same name by George Michael. Of course, this is another Christmas fairy tale with elements of fantasy, but with the introduction of elements of the need for all kinds of tolerance, including the open hostility against the background of Brexit against foreigners brought to Britain from European countries (in this case, these are Croats who fled the war in Yugoslavia). The main character is a young cocky girl of Croatian origin Kate (Emilia Clark), in fact Katarina, in every possible way at first avoids mentioning her roots and wants to disown them, rushing from side to side as if in search of herself, meets a young man of Japanese appearance Tom Webster (Henry Golding). Kate works in a shop of a Chinese Santa, who actually has a Chinese name, owns a Christmas jewelry store, so in love with the holiday that she sells them all year round. Kate wants to break into the stage because she once sang and her mother was a singer, but without success. Tom now appears, then disappears, behaves quite restrained and strange, the events seem to be a heap of some nonsense, when suddenly the truth about what is happening – both about Kate and Tom and who he really is – bursts into the narrative, and Kate’s rebirth begins before her eyes in the best traditions of Christmas stories. Well, what I can say about this film, the authors’ attempt to talk about being good and not bad is understandable, although quite primitive, but here you can refer to the laws of the genre, do not like – do not look. However, even taking into account all this, the script could be written better, and so sometimes it seems to be concocted a little hastily, humor is not so, sometimes satire is also visible, the author of the script is the famous Emma Thompson, playing the mother of the main character, along with another screenwriter B. Kimmings. Despite the happy ending, the film's title suggests - for whom is it last Christmas? If that's one thing for George Michael, who died on Christmas Day, but other than the idea of giving my heart to the right person, I didn't really get anything from the song.
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