Me Before You ... and how others have an impact in all of us
Ok, if you ready and in the mood for romance and drama that will get yours tears come out like rain, this is definitely a story that you need to experience in the big screen. Also happens that is the new adaptation from a best selling novel that after stealing the hearts of an entire base of readers is willing to do the same with moviegoers from around the globe to tell a story, again, of two individuals, that have nothing in common and ended falling for each other. So if that sounds like everything we've seen before, why got so popular? Basically because the story of this two strangers relates more in so many levels to ordinary people like you and me than all of those rom-coms that pretend to emulate love as a tv commercial where happiness and love will happen as formulaic as any recipe from your grandma's book. But this book is called "Me Before You" (2016), and tells the love story of Louisa and Will, two young guys united by circumstances that definitely worked as a perfect bad timing to meet each other but if the contrary that would have never happened and proving that in matters of love is all about chemistry and a connection beyond just physical attraction but feeling happy and loved, accepted and supported what get us closer to others.
The story begins when Will, a wealthy, handsome and successful young man, living the life that he always wanted: taking care of the family business that happened to be big, that big that happens to be related to the royal family in the UK, and also traveling around the world as a fan of extreme sports and surrounded by beautiful woman. Until one day his life changes after being hit by a motorcycle turning him into quadriplegic, sending him back with his parents, to their castle in small town out of London and attached to a wheel chair and his new adapted home. As expected he is not the same person. He has become into cynic and humorless person taking it out with any person in the room just to take his frustrations out and fighting one day at a time through depression and just seeing life going on through his window until a young girl, that happened to be looking for a job, trying to help her unemployed father to support the entire family, so she ends taking a job as a care taker unknowing what she is getting herself into, and without ay previous experience about it, but she really needs this and the money is very good so as optimistic as she is can't refuse this opportunity that will only turn her happy life into a miserable one as her new employer will make her life a living hell.
So the cards are set in the table. Two opposites placed in the same room. One as happy and optimistic as any cartoon for kids entertainment and the other as sad and hopeless as any old man facing death after losing everything. He will try to break her down and she will try to bring him up. And won't be until she finally makes him laugh that he will take his guard down and let her in, sharing some likes in pop culture that will introduce her into a new unknown world for her that she as hungry for life and learning and experiencing new things will devour gladly. And it's this fascination that she exposes for all this new world the will turn him in touch with his feeling and some hope about sharing a bit of his life with someone else, just to realize that life can't be that miserable when someone makes you day by joking and making you having a fun time but mostly proving that they really care about you and people are willing to help you, to show you that even things might be different they still love you and will be many options to enjoy life even with pain and some limitations but surrounded by love and the one that you love the most. But how much will this matter when the life that you wanted for yourself can't be anymore and won't be an option anymore? Is it worth to settle and accept things the way they are now and try to enjoy this new life that is offering to you or just give up to the fact that the things you love the most and the self you'll always want to become can't happen?
This is when this romance turns into different levels as we said at the beginning. Because these two lovers, they are not seeking for love. She has a boyfriend and even is not the right guy for her, they've been in a long term relationship and seems like working for both until she meets Will and starts opening her eyes to a new world that she didn't know but is changing her, and same for him, he had a girlfriend that pushed away after feeling not worthy for her in this new situation. He can't love anyone because he doesn't love himself anymore. But he will change after meeting her and realize how deep she is getting into him and how she is becoming the only reason to wake up and fight for another day when all he wants is to give up. He used to date models and gorgeous women were fighting over him. He was popular and desired. Nw he can't offer anything to a woman. No love, no sex, no seduction. He is losing his manhood. So he would never looked after a girl like Louise, so goofy and unique, beautiful in her own way, embracing fashion in her own style. But it's that unique personality the one that will get into his skin and show him that life and love has many shades and meanings, so thing and chemistry work in different ways proving that not always what matter is what you see. She's willing to do whatever it takes for him, willing to accept what he could never give her because what they have is strong enough to fight for but even he feels the same way can't be selfish and his own desire to just give up will make him stand back and fight against his feelings.
So things get more complicated than just couple issues but facing life and death as Will is willing to end his life. He has no desire to continue this fight. He has no hope to face reality as he knows now. His frustration after losing the life that he loved and without any possibility of getting it back, make seem like anything else won't be enough and if you not happy with yourself no one will make you, so once she knows ad faces this reality, shaking her feeling for him she will try to make him change his mind trying to prove him and show him a glimpse of a new life, the possibility of enjoying pleasures that he can still access and enjoy and might make change his mind about giving up. But a life with someone that loves you, and the possibility of pretend to have a normal life can shadow the fact that is not the one you want for yourself and that intention or mirror of a normal life won't be that normal once that limitations start to show up and will make you feel powerless, useless, needy, dependent to mention some. Then all romance will face out and reality will hit you, but is all these facts enough to decide to end your life or there are no excuses or facts that can be used as a good statement to take that decision? Is it love that powerful, worth to fight for even if will push to fight yourself or that same love but for yourself will make things simple and just take the easy exit? The arguments that can define a line between those two options are so strong and thin at the same time that probably until anyone experience that situation by their own could find the answers but still moral always will be present and when you are witnessing a love story happening will definitely push some sensitive buttons and topics on the table.
Ok, if you ready and in the mood for romance and drama that will get yours tears come out like rain, this is definitely a story that you need to experience in the big screen. Also happens that is the new adaptation from a best selling novel that after stealing the hearts of an entire base of readers is willing to do the same with moviegoers from around the globe to tell a story, again, of two individuals, that have nothing in common and ended falling for each other. So if that sounds like everything we've seen before, why got so popular? Basically because the story of this two strangers relates more in so many levels to ordinary people like you and me than all of those rom-coms that pretend to emulate love as a tv commercial where happiness and love will happen as formulaic as any recipe from your grandma's book. But this book is called "Me Before You" (2016), and tells the love story of Louisa and Will, two young guys united by circumstances that definitely worked as a perfect bad timing to meet each other but if the contrary that would have never happened and proving that in matters of love is all about chemistry and a connection beyond just physical attraction but feeling happy and loved, accepted and supported what get us closer to others.
This is when this romance turns into different levels as we said at the beginning. Because these two lovers, they are not seeking for love. She has a boyfriend and even is not the right guy for her, they've been in a long term relationship and seems like working for both until she meets Will and starts opening her eyes to a new world that she didn't know but is changing her, and same for him, he had a girlfriend that pushed away after feeling not worthy for her in this new situation. He can't love anyone because he doesn't love himself anymore. But he will change after meeting her and realize how deep she is getting into him and how she is becoming the only reason to wake up and fight for another day when all he wants is to give up. He used to date models and gorgeous women were fighting over him. He was popular and desired. Nw he can't offer anything to a woman. No love, no sex, no seduction. He is losing his manhood. So he would never looked after a girl like Louise, so goofy and unique, beautiful in her own way, embracing fashion in her own style. But it's that unique personality the one that will get into his skin and show him that life and love has many shades and meanings, so thing and chemistry work in different ways proving that not always what matter is what you see. She's willing to do whatever it takes for him, willing to accept what he could never give her because what they have is strong enough to fight for but even he feels the same way can't be selfish and his own desire to just give up will make him stand back and fight against his feelings.
So things get more complicated than just couple issues but facing life and death as Will is willing to end his life. He has no desire to continue this fight. He has no hope to face reality as he knows now. His frustration after losing the life that he loved and without any possibility of getting it back, make seem like anything else won't be enough and if you not happy with yourself no one will make you, so once she knows ad faces this reality, shaking her feeling for him she will try to make him change his mind trying to prove him and show him a glimpse of a new life, the possibility of enjoying pleasures that he can still access and enjoy and might make change his mind about giving up. But a life with someone that loves you, and the possibility of pretend to have a normal life can shadow the fact that is not the one you want for yourself and that intention or mirror of a normal life won't be that normal once that limitations start to show up and will make you feel powerless, useless, needy, dependent to mention some. Then all romance will face out and reality will hit you, but is all these facts enough to decide to end your life or there are no excuses or facts that can be used as a good statement to take that decision? Is it love that powerful, worth to fight for even if will push to fight yourself or that same love but for yourself will make things simple and just take the easy exit? The arguments that can define a line between those two options are so strong and thin at the same time that probably until anyone experience that situation by their own could find the answers but still moral always will be present and when you are witnessing a love story happening will definitely push some sensitive buttons and topics on the table.
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