Richard Curtis article.

'A shiny, happy place, relaxed about the filthy rich, insatiable in its optimism, in love with happy endings, and very New Labour Welcome to Curtisland...'
This article debates whether Richard Curtis' career as a film director is starting to 'sink' along with England's New Labour. Tim Adams (the writer of this article) looks back on Curtis' most popular films and describes how they reflected England and its political influence at that time. A lot of Curtis's characters in the film are connected with the vibe from the parliment and the priminster at the time the film was written.
For me, this article works well in describing Curtis' films and how the ideas and the characters spring from English ways and Parliment. It makes me look at his films in more detail and realise how well Curtis has built the characters to represent English people. For example in 'Love Actually' when Karen finds out her husband has brought an expensive necklace for another woman on christmas she quickly has a cry upstairs and then composes herself, ready to re-join her family downstairs. This represents the attitude of a lot of English people who simple feel that they have no time to break down and have to carry on with their busy schedule and family.