Fat Actually: Love Actually's Peculiar Preoccupation

This is a re-upload, with Kate Moss's cursed bosom covered, lest they turn all my viewers to stone! Or whatever Youtube thinks will happen.

Love Actually is a credit to writer/director Richard Curtis's ability to create a lively and amusing world full of funny and memorable characters. Whether or not you really like the film (I am not its biggest fan), it's the reason it's so enduring. But why is Curtis so preoccupied with fat? It comes up so often, not just in the film, but in the script, the commentary, and his other writing. A lot has been written about the character of Natalie, played by Martine McCutcheon, a character who is called chubby, plumpy, and fat by three different characters in the film, not to mention multiple other jabs at her weight, when she is plainly not fat. But there are a lot more characters than just Natalie who get criticized for some extra (real or imagined) pounds.

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The Parting by Kevin MacLeod
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Pyro Flow by Kevin MacLeod
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