Funny. Heartwarming. Inspiring. Utterly darn romantic.
This Christmas rom-com is exactly the movie I’ve been waiting for.
For years, the rom-com scenes, messaging and portrayals are of extremely attractive people falling in love. Watch any rom-com: Love Actually, which this movie pays homage to: a movie filled with remarkable people, in terms of intelligence, talent and attractiveness. All people that we normals could never relate to.
I’ve seen it over and over, and Netflix’s movie poster on ‘Love Hard’ made it seem like yet another movie about a hot guy and beautiful girl falling madly in love in some bizarre way.
But yet, in walks Josh - a 30-year-old single Asian candle-maker, living with his parents, working at a job he’s not good at, living vicariously through a hot guy’s life. . .and he was the real heartthrob.
Nina Dobrev’s performance was adorable, relatable and charming. Women all over the world were feeling her struggle with the conquest of finding The One. The fact that a modern American movie showed that even a plain guy can land the beautiful girl just by having the right best personality and a good heart - that, friends, is the real secret to the beauty of dating. Where personality trumps looks. And thats how people ACTUALLY fall in love in real life.
Everything about this movie was brilliant. Asians all over the world have overachieving siblings who parents fawn over, for no good reason. Asians all over the world are pressure into getting married. Asians all over the world are expected to fit into a mould that their parents want. But the main characters in this movie were strong, tough and bold, they broke the stigma, they fought societal norms of love, normalcy and culture.
If this were real life, though, I doubt an actual relationship would ever work out if there was catfishing involved, but then again, no one watches rom-coms to look at what life is really like. They watch rom-coms to escape from their otherwise non-existent love life...or maybe that's just me? All I can say to my future soulmate is - Catfish away. I’m ready to meet my Josh Lin.
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