I was watching a movie with my sister over Christmas, The Holiday, a nice Christmassy movie for some QT with the sis during my brief visit back to the UK and she, in her 13-going-on-20-year-old way told me that the character played by Kate Winslet is me. She repeated this over and over and found it endlessly amusing. Whenever Kate’s character would get excited or cry my sister would laugh and say ‘that’s so you’. And this is why apparently - fair skin, blonde hair, excitable and emotional (that being crying).
After brooding on this for several weeks I still can’t decide how I feel about it. My sister knows me very, very well and would only have said it if she meant so it seems that must be what I am like.
Yes, the character has some charms, she bounces back, she has the strength to change her unhappy life, she believes in love and happy endings (and gets one). They are all things I would like to be like.
However, she also tried to kill herself by sticking her head in her oven and was pathetically in love with a man who strung her along for years and didn‘t love her back. I hereby vow to never do either of those things.
Have you ever been likened to a character or had someone nail your personality with one sentence and completely blow your mind with it? It’s a revelation but not exactly a pleasant experience.
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