Synopsis
Will Traynor`s motorcycle accident has left him paralyzed and
taken away his desire to live. Louisa "Lou" Clark needs a job and
becomes Will`s caretaker but she is upset that he doesn`t like her. Will has no
idea that the quirky 26-year-old will bring so much light to his dark life and
neither of them predicted the bond they will eventually have.
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Jo Jo Moyes, Me Before
You tells the story of the unexpected relationship that blossoms between a
contented small town Englishwoman and the wealthy, paralyzed Londoner who hires
her as his caretaker. Theater director Thea Sharrock makes her feature
directorial debut with this MGM/New Line Cinema co-production.
A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a
recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps
there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The
Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's
coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took
away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather
joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What
Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of
color. And neither of them knows they're going to change each other for all
time.
Will Traynor's motorcycle accident has left him paralysed and taken away his desire to live. Louisa "Lou" Clark needs a job and becomes Will's caretaker but she is upset that he doesn't like her. Will has no idea that the quirky 26-year-old will bring so much light to his dark life and neither of them predicted the bond they will eventually have.
Often times you find love where you least expect it. Sometimes it takes you where you never expected to go.
ReplyDeleteResistance to this delirious romantic tragedy is futile, save for that nagging voice in our head wondering if it really has to be this way.
ReplyDeleteThese are deep, complicated issues the film wades into, and it quickly winds up out of its depth.
Guileless, naïve and accident-prone, Lou is such a ray of sunshine that her offer to wrap up a customer’s leftover sandwich elicits the sort of reaction you’d usually see from recent lottery winners, but she’s thrown for a loop when her quaint tea shop closes down.
ReplyDeleteA melodrama with soft-rock ballads where it’s beating heart should be.
Sharrock, a veteran theater director making her film-making debut, certainly maintains an air of sweetness throughout, and several scenes throb with unexpected resonance. The dignified mortification on Will’s face when Lou recruits a gang of blokes to lift his wheelchair out of the mud is affectingly underplayed and a late wedding scene hums with the sort of real romantic charge that goes missing elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe chemistry between the leads and a few finely etched supporting turns provide welcome counterweight to the movie’s formulaic progression, welcome especially for those who have seen their fair share of entries in the love-story-with-medical-complication sub-genre.
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