Love Vacation is a love film directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Lowe, and Jack Black. The film was released in the United States on December 8, 2006.
The film uses two main narrative lines, although there is no special storyline, but the story expressed in the film is gripping.
The film tells the story of two Amanda and Alice from different countries, both betrayed by their boyfriends, but a coincidence makes them meet on a housing exchange website, and the two make a bold decision: exchange their house and everything for each other's vacation, so the two embark on a 15-day trip abroad.
Amanda is a producer from a film company in Los Angeles, USA, she is an independent and excellent female representative, with a successful career, and like-minded friends, living in a luxurious apartment, but despite her success, she has not been able to stop her boyfriend from splitting her legs, which is indeed a major blow to a good woman, she will split her leg boyfriend out of the house, decided to relieve the mood in the way of vacation.
Alice is a newspaper editor in London, England, she is an innocent British woman, with beautiful expectations and fantasies about love, but at the Christmas Eve meeting, she witnessed her boyfriend splitting his legs and could not let go. With an infinite vision of love, she has a hard time accepting this fact, and she also decides to release herself by taking a vacation.
On a house exchange website, they met and decided to exchange accommodation for each other's vacation, a luxury villa in New York, USA, and a cozy cottage in London, England. The two embarked on a 15-day trip abroad.
In the English cottage Amanda met Alice's brother Graham, the two fell in love at first sight, the two sparked a spark of love, sweet dopamine secretion made them have an intimate relationship, after the sweetness, Amanda had to stay awake, she did not want to let herself go through a pain in the future long-distance relationship.
She decided to leave this place, but she cried bitterly on the way to the airport, she did not shed tears when she encountered her boyfriend's split legs, but at the moment she was crying and tearing her lungs, this is probably love, love does not matter how long or short, and whether it is deep enough, it is love that makes Amanda choose to stay, this is the great power of love!
Alice meets the American boy Miles, Amanda's colleague and friend, who is a soundtrack artist. They became friends, and in constant contact and exchange, the relationship between the two took them one step closer. Because of her kindness and innocence, she even made friends with a 90-year-old man who had been a Hollywood writer, and under his guidance, Alice recognized the face of the Jasper scumbag, she also understood that humble love was not love, she finally bravely turned him away, she was no longer the naïve little girl, and the two weeks of travel to New York had made her grow a lot. Everyone is not a layer of unchanged, only after experiencing something, will you recognize your heart, boldly take the first step, maybe your life will be different because of this.
Film criticism reflects the difference between Chinese and Western love cultures, Westerners' view of love is relatively open, they pay more attention to the feelings of a person, even if they only know each other for a day, or even for a few hours, as long as both parties like each other, sleeping together and having a relationship is romantic for them. In Chinese's view, it is only after the identification of male and female friends that the date is official, and finally the sexual relationship occurs. This can only be said to be the difference between the Chinese and Western concepts of love and love culture, each of us may not have the same view of love, but one thing is the same, happy and happy, the courage to pursue their own happiness is the most important.