真爱至上 (电影)

故事的主线人物是一位新晋的英国首相(休·格兰特)，年轻有为的他在刚刚入主伦敦唐宁街10号(英国首相官邸)的第一天，就发现自己爱上了漂亮的单身母亲娜塔丽(玛蒂·麦克卡森)，而娜塔丽的工作就是每天负责为首相端茶倒水，首相碍于自己的身份不好表白，但是真情又难违，于是他陷入一场天人交战……最终这两个身份悬殊的人，如何成就一段浪漫而引人瞩目的爱情？
此外，还有另外九个有关真爱的故事在这个城市分别上演——一个被致爱女友抛弃的作家跑到法国南部去寻求治疗自己受伤心灵的方法，却爱上了一个法国女人；一个过气的摇滚歌星千方百计想重返舞台找回曾经的荣耀与喝彩；一个步入婚姻盛殿的新娘子却和伴郎磨擦出了火花，可怜的伴郎必须要马上在爱情和友情中做出选择；一对面临着同样感情问题的父子，他们都因为爱上一个可望而不可及的女人而陷入矛盾挣扎……
本片的导演兼编剧理查德·柯蒂斯曾经撰写过最受欢迎的四部英国影视剧的剧本——《四次婚礼一次葬礼》、《诺丁山》、《憨豆先生》系列及《BJ单身日记》，仅仅是这几部片子在全球的票房就已经接近10亿美元，而且不光是叫座，在评论家中的口碑也相当好，这足以说明柯蒂斯出色却又不媚俗的编剧水准。
虽然这是柯蒂斯第一次担任导演把剧本转化为镜头语言，但是环球电影公司显然非常看好《真爱至上》，否则也不会把影片的档期安排在11月7日，这个日子正好迎头碰上本年度最受关注的巨片《黑客帝国3》，其他片子都退让三舍避之不及，《真爱至上》又凭什么和黑客们抗衡？看看影片的演员阵容吧？百爱百胜的英伦浪漫骑士休·格兰特、蜚声影坛的才女艾玛·汤普森、英国老牌演技派“戏精”阿兰·瑞克曼、以《我爱贝克汉姆》和《加勒比海盗》迅速窜红的“新鲜美女”凯拉·奈特莉，要看谐，有人见人笑的“憨豆先生”罗文·阿特金森，要看正，有演技无可挑剔的“辛德勒”连恩·尼森。这样庞大恢弘又丰富多彩的的演员阵容，想必能俘获十之八九的影迷群来影院甘心捧场了。
除了让人如雷贯耳的演员之外，还有另外一个原因让这部浪漫爱情喜剧敢于在黑客的风暴之下逆风起飞，那就是以柔克刚。如果说充满武器、爆炸和格斗的《黑客帝国》是百炼钢的话，那么所有剧情都围绕爱情展开的《真爱至上》就堪称是绕指柔了，就像本片主演休·格兰特所说：“浪漫是随时随地都受人们欢迎的。”或者换句话说就是——真爱无敌。虽然说单就票房而言，本片终究难以敌过来势汹汹的黑客，但是毕竟一部好的电影给予观众的除了想象力和视觉冲击之外，留下一份心灵上的温暖也是弥足珍贵的。
“很多人认为我们是生活在一个充满欲望和仇恨的世界，我不这样想，我觉得世界是充满爱的。”导演理查德·柯蒂斯在一次接受采访时说：“你知道吗？当我看到那两价飞机撞到世贸的双塔时，我们后来得知，那些飞机和楼里迎接死亡的人们留给这个世界最后的只言片语，不是憎恨，不是复仇，而是爱，他们告诉自己挚爱的亲友们，他们是多么爱这个世界，这些都是爱的讯息，他们打动了我，就像‘Love is All Around’那首歌里说的，爱无处不在。”
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The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.
Summary written by Rosemea D.S. MacPherson
Set almost entirely in London, England during five frantic weeks before Christmas follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, losely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David (Hugh Grant) who cannot express his growing feelings for his new personal assistant Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). The prime minister's older sister Karen (Emma Thompson) slowly grows aware of her husband Harry's (Alan Rickman) flirtation with an office worker named Mia (Heike Makatsch). Karen's friend Daniel (Liam Neeson) is a recently widowed writer whose 11-year-old son asks for love advice about a girl he has a crush on. Meanwhile, Jamie (Colin Firth) is another writer who leaves his girlfriend after catching her cheating on him and travels to France to write a novel where he pursues a possible romance with his non-English speaking Portuguese maid Aurelia (Lucia Moniz). Also, Harry's American secretary Sarah (Laura Linney) questions a romance she pursues with the office hunk Karl (Rodrigo Santoro), but her personal family problems get in the way. Other secondary characters involve a photographer who pursues his best friend's new wife Juliet (Keira Knightley); a pair of movie stand-ins, named John and Judy, who grow closer after their simulated love scenes; a libidinous chum who wants to travel to Wisconsin, USA to score with women; and a burned-out former rock star named Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) who is the main connection between all stories involved.
Summary written by Matt Patay
Love is all around us. And that's certainly true for all of these people. John (Martin Freeman) and Just Judy (Joanna Page) have fallen in love with each other while on the set of an erotically charged film. David (Hugh Grant) has just become the new Prime Minister. The second he steps into his office/home, he is smitten with Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), his catering manager who had already screwed up at the first minute. David's sister is Karen (Emma Thompson), who's married to Harry (Alan Rickman), who runs a local magazine. Harry is somewhat smitten by his secretary, Mia (Heike Makatsch), who is constantly hitting on him. Harry's best editor is Sarah (Laura Linney), who has a brother in the asylum and a not-so-hidden crush on Karl (Rodrigo Santoro), who has a thing for her as well. Karen is friends with both Daniel (Liam Neeson), who has just lost his wife and has discovered that his stepson (Thomas Sangster) is in love with a young American girl, and Jamie (Colin Firth), whose girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) has just left him for his younger and more attractive brother (Dan Fredenburgh), forcing him to move to France to continue writing his novel while falling for Aurelia (Lúcia Moniz), a young Portuguese woman who can't speak a lick of English or French. Juliet (Keira Knightley) has just married Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor), not realizing that his best friend Mark (Andrew Lincoln) has loved her since they first met. Colin (Kris Marshall) is desperate to have sex and believes that in order to do that, he should travel to Wisconsin because he thinks that American women will dig him for being British. And Billy Mack (Bill Nighy), an old rocker who is climbing back up the charts after battling his old heroin addiction, is on the radio and TV shows either bad-mouthing his new CD, insulting his manager, Joe (Gregor Fisher), or a hot new boy band, or calling Britney Spears the worst sex he's ever had. Are you still following along?</P>
Summary written by Will