" I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name."
William
Notting Hill
1999
I guess when someone is given fame, you find out who you really are when trying to deal with the fortune that expels oneself. Have you ever been that person that sulked in someone elses praise? Have you ever been that person that couldn't stand someones happiness?
I have to admit that I sometimes lust for others happiness. Yet, I am humbled by my own success. Sometimes, ones fame calculates more than fortune. Sometimes, one fortune is just existing in the moment, and placing fame on a different caliber.
This film was sweet and idealistic. This film was good and heartfelt and innocent. A man's status, or per say, ego, found its way into William's soul, and somehow expelled towards a beauty with fame in which found a way parked in William's heart.
William is played by Hugh Grant, and the character Anna is played by Julia Roberts. Notting Hill brings about a sort of lovers concept that geography may separate worlds, but, by getting there in love it is just a foot into a long journey.
We can't look at circumstance and love without thinking about geography and space.
Isn't love about giving someone space, and isn't space about finding that instant geography into one's soul?
Love is like a map. You find what you are looking for, yet you have to constantly find alternates when there is a mountain, or a road block, or even a stop sign that stands in the way. When life finds its way for two souls to collide, the incident is not a "stumble upon via a set of bad directions", it is a chance encounter with choice, and proximity.
We choose our geography. But, does changing geography change the outcome?
Many I know think it does. Many I know think that a different landing or a different ocean's view would make the world a lot more realistically true. I know those that find themselves pawning after the road less traveled into the unknown by taking risks that one day, that fork in the road would have an arrow pointing to the perfect way of passage.
Hugh and Julia's on screen chemistry was full of direction and intrigue. People use stories like these to relate to circumstances they don't have the words for. Notting Hill moved mountains and cleared the waves of love as it touched on how critical life is when tested against its separation based on status.
Who would have thought that status really meant that much.
Read the quote above again, and I will leave you with Anna's response. It is so sweet and so classically Hollywood that I guess its true that love is reachable.
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Anna Scott
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Cranky Cuss.. That is a freaking riot! Hilarious. Sooo chick flick.. all Hugh's films are. But, we have to admit.. we are all suckers for them sometimes (chick flicks that is.. ;-)