mercoledì 15 ottobre 2014

A walk to remember - 2002

I sort of liked it, the usual film who promises to make me cry my heart out. Sure, at first the two characters are not very nice, because he's the 'popular guy', one of those that can do anything, that think they're so great, only thinking of making pranks and have fun, and she's... hard to know at first, but when he asks for her help in studying, and she says she'll help him only if he promises not to fall in love with her... well, it seemed a bit strange. Not arrogant, no, it wasn't said with that tone, but still it was awkward.
Anyway, as it goes along, you start understanding her better, and he changes totally and makes you weep, at the end I was crying like a baby.
It's not easy at first, because he won't even admit to his friends that she's helping him; she's one of the 'unpopular ones', and his role has always been to ignore or humiliate those people, and she's not willing to forgive him that. When they finally act in the school show together, the one she was supposed to help him with, she's finally dressed like a pretty girl and she sings well (well, she's Mandy Moore, there's got to be a song, doesn't it??), and he kisses her.  Of course, before, she was the ugly duckling, but when he can see her like transformed into a shiny swan, then he falls for her. ok.
Anyway, this is just the beginning. He starts spending all his time with her, wanting to be with her all the time, doing all kinds of things for her, making all her wishes come true. All his time becomes devoted to her, but she still hasn't told him her secret. When he finds out she's terminally ill, he doesn't know what to do. He asks for his father's help, despite this costs him a great deal, since they have practically no relationship, and his father doesn't know what to do, there and then, because of course it's not like he could say: of course I'll save her for you, just like that, without even knowing her, without knowing anything, and btw he's not a cancer doctor. However, later it will be revealed that he offered to pay for all the private cure she can get at home, and the scene where the boy goes to his father to say thank you and then they hug, while he's crying, so much in pain, is one of the nicest scenes of the film, to me.  I liked that.
They even get married, another one of her dreams, and then we have Landon telling us what happened next, as a voice over. She died very few months later, but he'll never forget her, and their love will always warm his heart, and he'll go on in his life being the better person she made him be.
I'm almost crying right now, recolling it again. Anyway, the main part was the boy, and his unexpected love, that caught him by surprise and took completely hold of him. He was the film, his pain is what made me cry.

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