Love, Actually

We decided to watch Love, Actually, on pay-per-view, having forgotten that we've both seen it already. I don't think it's a wonderful movie (clearly not, or I'd have remembered it) but it's pleasant. I haven't been in the mood for serious movies lately.

The strangest thing is that Shawn and I both remembered a different ending between Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. In the version we watched tonight, Rickman really had purchased the gold necklace for his secretary and was caught by Thompson who ended up deciding to try and work out their relationship anyway in spite of being terribly hurt.

In the version Shawn and I both remembered, Thompson only thought Rickman had given the necklace to his secretary, when in fact the secretary had taken it without permission (explaining the scene in which she was seen wearing it) and it was really meant for his wife all along. Presto, happy ending.

Strange, that. I've been looking online to see if I could figure out if we'd seen an alternate ending that first time... but I can't find any answers. Is it possible that we both wanted a happy ending so badly that we imagined one?

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