A Walk To Remember

Hi, everyone!

Ok, where to start? Just finished seeing this movie right now and I don’t have words to describe it.

Let’s got to the fact that I started searching it in the Internet the moment that it ended. And don’t tell me you don’t do the same and try to find people who had similar feelings to it has you did, because you are just lying or maybe I’m just weird… Well the point is that I found out that it was an adaptation to a Nicholas Sparks book. That is the same as “You.Are.Going.To.Cry.A.Lot.And.Your.Heart.Is.Going.To.Break”. Not much to say. I held my tears, but my heart crushed into little pieces. I knew it was going to be sad, but I never imagined how much.

Is it worthy? Honestly, I don’t know. In Notebook, which I just saw because it was on the top of romantic movies and I needed to see something like that, you still have an end where the characters stay together. I know, I know, she as Alzheimer and doesn’t know who he is, but they still lived a life together, had kids and she still has few but some lucid moments, but these two had ONE Summer. ONE!

Do you want a fact? Nicholas Sparks is not for the easy hearts. You need strength to see this. Never the less is a beautiful movie.

Landon (Shane West) is the bad boy that every girl likes, trying to hold to his social status and doing stupid things and Jamie (Mandy Moore) is the sweet girl, that dresses a little out of fashion, but doesn’t care about others opinions and is not naive. They fall in love, like we all knew it was going to happen, but again not like most stories, Landon leaves everything for her. He hesitates a little, but is not something that takes for ages and their chemistry is great.

What I would liked to see was a bit more of the transition or growth of love between the two of them, it was a little bit to fast for me.

Walking along the movie is the soundtrack, that is beautiful. Favorite scene has to be when Jamie sings on the play “Only Hope”. Gorgeous and so sweet!

So now to the painful part. Not really warning you about spoilers, because all post is full of them, but I’m going to be talking about the end of the book.

“I’m sick.” One simple sentence that ruins everything and what am I suppose to write about this? That I knew? Yes. Was I prepared for all of the emotions? No.

For me it wasn’t heartbreaking that Jamie was dying, but the fact that Landon ran around everywhere to keep her here. He made every dream or wish of hers to come true, because that was everything that he could do. She had one wish, the first on her list, to get marry where her mother got marry. You can see where this is going to end. They got married. Beautiful scene. Those of you who saw Grey’s Anatomy, might remember the scene where Izzie marries Alec, when she is with cancer. Looking back and knowing that this movie was from 2002, I will say that the producers saw this movie too many times.

Now ending part… I thought that they would have more time and that the miracle that she spoke of was that she wouldn’t die. A love so strong that would make her better. But again, we are talking about Nicholas Sparks. Cut the hopes. Still, I thought that in the last part where he is coming back to town, he was coming to see is son or daughter, that they had. So he still had a piece of her.  But no.

Well life is life and Nicholas Sparks books are Nicholas Sparks books. So my conclusion is that if you like romantic movies go ahead and watch. I don’t know if it’s just because I don’t like movies that play so much with my feelings and pain, but I leave thinking that in the end it’s just a good love story with a tragic end. And if you go and see it, you may see the same. There is nothing special, but the way the actors perform and their chemistry. It’s Romeo and Juliet end with modern problems.

Sorry if I’m being brutally honest, but I have mixed emotions. It’s romantic but so depressing that makes me sick. It should had had another ending, even though she died, like a son/daughter… whatever.  Just my opinion.

What did you though of the movie? Post your comments and questions below.

Lots of love,

Paradise of Words