Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke. |
Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke) is a free spirit that has been recently laid off from a cafe and is trying to look for a job. Will Trainer (Sam Claflin) is an arrogant and sarcastic banker that cares for his wealth but he gets into a motorcycle accident. He is left paralyzed from the neck down. Lou is hired by Will's mom, to cheer him up and care for him but not care for him physically as an Australian doctor does the professional needs.
At first, Will reacts to Lou's spunkiness and peppiness in a cold manner. But, in a formulaic manner, they both mutually connect and fall in love with each other despite the fact that Lou has a marathon-obsessive boyfriend, Patrick (Matthew Lewis). Will wants to please her with a date regarding Mozart, he cooks for her and treat her with movies. However, Will cannot deal with the pain and suffering as Lou also tries to change her mind from doing what he has to do to save his life in an eternal way.
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Emilia Clarke was fine in this movie individually but I don't know if she can carry a movie yet for me. I feel like she'll be better as a strong female supporting character than a lead character because, there were, at times, her reaction shots got tiring. Sam Claflin is effortless when he has to give in some requests to treat Lou. Their chemistry was better than both of their individual performances. Matthew Lewis is in a throwaway role as the boyfriend but does not generate much charisma for me.
Director Thea Sharrock's movie is emotionally dishonest towards disabled people and towards disable people in a relationship. The emotional and dramatic conflict regarding death does not grasp much ability to entrance us to weep. Its dark themes and consequences does not give enough credibility to make us learn what he has been going through. We pay attention solely to the characters' romantic chemistry. In conclusion, it is filmed beautifully on an aesthetic level, but the corniness and dishonesty towards the dark material permits to me to walk away in disappointment. This movie does not do it for me. It is better than The Fault in Our Stars with all the murky and manipulative sentiment.
**1/2
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