When I first saw the trailer for Me Before You, two things instantly attracted me to the film; It was a romantic comedy which is my all round favourite genre, and secondly the fact that the male lead was being portrayed by the very handsome Mr Sam Claflin.
I was beginning to become impatient, so I decided to pick the book to which the film had been adapted from which goes under the same name, and I fell in love with how author Jojo Moyes had written such a beautiful yet heartbreaking tale.
Will Traynor, portrayed by Claflin, is a young successful business executive who is blessed with all the beautiful things in life; beautiful girlfriend, beautiful apartment and beautiful holidays to which the extreme sports enthusiast that he is, is allowed to run free. It is not until he is hit by a motorcycle whilst crossing the street, that his life is changed forever and is left a quadriplegic.
But a bright eccentric bundle of energy is about to turn his world the right way up! Louisa Clark portrayed my ‘Game of Thrones’ Amelia Clarke, has never left the safety of the tiny English town of which she grew up in. When she fired from her waitress job, she is then given the gift that will change her as a person, and the rest of her life, when she become’s Will’s carer.
The combination of Louisa’s work ethic and ambition (and not to mention her dodgy taste in fashion) and Will’s arrogance begins to shows a failed sign of any sort of relationship between the pair. But as they take a date to the opera, their walls begin to fall and with Claflin’s cheeky grin, the become lost within one another and we see the start of a beautiful love story.
But then Moyes decided to trample across our hearts, by including the heartbreaking issue of Euthanasia to which Will makes a decision to go to Switzerland to have assisted help to end his short but unlived life, as he can no longer live the way he is. We join the pair on Will’s last journey, and it is assured that you will shed a few tears as we learn how Euthanasia really does tear loved ones apart as the fantastic acting abilities of Clarke and Claflin make it all the more realistic as we see the perfect bond that was formed between the pair.
I’d highly recommend you bribe your other half or your girlfriends, grab the kleenex and prepare yourself for a weepy romantic ride!
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