Love Hard

 

Overview:

Genre: Romance/Comedy

Duration: 1h 45m

Release Date: November 5th 2021

Age rating: 14+ (some mature themes and language)

Director: Hernán Jiménez - a Costa Rican film director, screenwriter, actor and stand-up comedian born on April 22nd 1980 in San José, Costa Rica. 

Hernán Jiménez

Production companies: Wonderland Sound and Vision

Where to watch: Netflix (subscription) 

Cast: Nina Dobrev, Darren Barnet, Jimmy O. Yang, Harry Shum Jr. and Mikaela Hoover.

Plot

After meeting her perfect match on a dating app, an L.A. writer learns she's been catfished when she flies 3,000 miles to surprise him for Christmas.

My personal opinion

Think this may be my new favourite christmas movie - 10/10

It's sweet, authentic, cheesy, cliché almost but in a good way.

In the society we live in today, we are so focused on molding ourselves into the "perfect person" for the people we like that we limit our own self worth to physical attraction and soon lose our own sense of self. 

The movie perfectly shows that looks aren't everything. In fact, this movie is an excellent example of how chasing people purely for physical attraction may blow up in our face. 

My favourite quotes from this movie are...

(Not in order)

1. I thought I flew 3,000 miles to see how my story ended. And instead, I found out how it begins. -Natalie
2. "That's why sosh media exists: to either distract people from their own lives, or to show them that things could be, you know, so, so much worse." - Lee
3. "Here's the thing. You're not just fooling yourself. There's someone else on the other side of that lie falling in love with a version of you that doesn't exist. And that's not fair, because the only way it ends for them is disappointment. And the only way it ends for you is heartbreak. If I've learned anything, it's that love doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be honest." - Josh
4. "I've spent my entire life looking for the perfect guy. But there's perfect, and there's perfect for me." - Natalie