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“Hey Clark', he said.'Tell me something good'. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
–Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
The Story: A young lady in a modest small town shapes an improbable romantic bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.
Introduction
The opening credits start to show on a radiant white screen. A female voice proposes they 'do this' on their holiday rather than all the hiking her partner has planned. As the camera zooms out, the white gets conspicuous as the wrinkled sheets of a bed.
Release date - 3 June 2016 (India)
Director - Thea Sharrock
Story by - Jojo Moyes
Genre - Romance, Drama
Screenplay - Jojo Moyes
Imdb rating - 7.4
Awards - People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie
Crew - Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Matthew Lewis, Stephen Peacocke, Jenna Coleman, Brendan Coyle, Samantha Spiro, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Lloyd-Hughes.
Envision "The Intouchables" with less chemistry and more romance, crossbred with a far more manageable rendition of "Pretty Woman" and you're halfway toward imagining Thea Sharrock's "Me Before You."
I don't have a clue how to describe how astounding this film was. I was concerned because this was one of my favourite books. It just utterly shattered my heart when I read it.
Typically I hate movie adaptations, however this one did truly well I think. So regularly there are pieces that are absent from the film yet this one worked really hard at bringing significance for certain events and sprinkled the others.
Matching a working-class British young lady with a frosty, quadriplegic blue-blood who's heart she's been recruited to soften, "Me Before You" would appear to flaunt a can't-miss premise — class partitions and medical misfortune being the peanut butter-and-jam of tragic romance.
But, Sharrock's technically-sound yet workmanlike bearing never sells the emotional crests and troughs, the characters are on the other hand alternately overstated and excessively buttoned-down to spring up to life, and the last goal drives the film into an ethically provocative area that it has neither the inclination nor the boldness to confront.
The Story line
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“Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”
–Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Louisa Clark is a lively 26-year-old from a striving working class family. Essentially a surprisingly realistic Disney princess, Lou dresses like she's diverted the entirety of the energy that is absent from her life into her eccentric wardrobe, and she wears her feelings so broadly all over that she should be a human emoticon.
But Oh, this bubbly creature is a chomped down sad — the bakery where she works has been compelled to lay her off, and Lou is persuaded that her potential is as dim as her job prospects and possibilities. She's dismissed what the world has to bring to offer her, and what she may have to offer the world consequently.
Frantic for work, Lou interviews to be a caregiver figure for Will Traynor, the newly quadriplegic hunk who lives with his family in the gigantic palace at the focal point of town.
Appearing at the audition in an '80s-era power-suit that parts down the thigh when she meets Will's extreme mother (Janet McTeer), Lou couldn't be all the more unfit to really care for another human being. She's employed on the spot.
According to the great custom of not so subtle "Beauty and the Beast" knockoffs, Will is a hopeless, miserable ass until the new lady in his life figures out a way to pierce his icy veneer.
Epitomized with staggering effect by "Hunger Games" star Sam Claflin, the actor utilizes his high cheekbones and peevish eyes to convey everything about the man Will was before the runaway bike accident that crippled him. .
She's poor and provincial, yet she has the world at her feet. He's rich and experienced, however has no life in his legs.
Lou and Will definitely fall head over heels in love and start to see life once more through the joy they give each other, however there's one obstacle that keeps the romance moored to the ground: Will wants to commit suicide.
An insight into the Technical, Screenplay and Directional Aspects
What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
–Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Hollywood's peculiar reluctance to make such a major heartfelt romantic dramatizations that would appear to be its most dependable reliable date-night draws, the film ought to do strong business, shining the rising careers of its stars, Emilia Clarke ("Game of Thrones") and Sam Claflin ("The Hunger Games" motion pictures).
Claflin and Clarke are both effortlessly engaging and appealing entertainers. Clarke has a gigantically expressive face, however again and again here she basically cycles to and fro between forcefully adorable cuteness and dewy-peered toward pathos, as though she's persistently displaying for either a Kewpie doll or a marble sculpture of the Pietà.
The scope of Claflin's character is similarly restricted, with his attitude toward Lou moving in a very small space from condescending aversion to stooping affection.
The veteran theater director, Sharrock, making her film making debut, certainly maintains an air of sweetness throughout, and several scenes throb with unexpected resonance.
Personal Favorite Parts
“I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
The story is composed according to the perspective of Louisa. However, that doesn't imply that we do not get to understand different characters all the more profoundly. The wide range of various characters are wonderfully composed.
Treena is the best sister one could want. I adored the manner in which Mr and Mrs Clark upheld Lou. I cherished Mr and Mrs Traynor for being steady and solid. The creator gives exceptionally sufficient experiences into their lives. Their ways of life, choices, feelings felt genuine.
One of my most loved parts in the movie is the place where the entire Clark family were attempting to make Will feel home during Louisa 's birthday. And of course, I absolutely adored the present Will gave Louisa on her birthday.
The plot is enrapturing. The story is moderate paced, however, that doesn't go about as a hindrance as the plot is enthralling sufficient to keep the viewer hooked to the movie till the end.
The Bottom Line
I was weeping for a decent 10 minutes after the film finished. I don't know whether this is on the grounds that I read the book and I realized how tragic it was or if that was the film's impact on me. I guess we won't ever know.
"Me Before You" isn't just "love," nor does it need to be, however the blunt enthusiastic trustworthiness and honesty of its story is just supported by dodging so many of the tragic details that might have galvanized Will's dire circumstance. "Me Before You" wants you to cry, however it doesn't want you to suffer.
It's a troublesome needle to thread — to cite the Ed Sheeran tune that unavoidably plays over the climactic moments: “Loving can hurt. Loving can hurt sometimes” — and one that the film negotiates by covering its unflinchingly candid drama with a thick layer of Hollywood sparkle.
On the off chance that you need a decent, strong,wholesome romance, and if it's not too much trouble, please read this book or watch the film. I cherished both with my entire heart and I trust you do as well.
My ratings for the movie - 4.8 on 5
Written By - Prakriti Chaudhary
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