Me Before You | | Movie Review

I can't remember the last time a movie made me cry like Me Before You did. I wouldn't have even classified it as sad if I stopped watching halfway.
I only wanted to watch a simple romance, that would be a calm experience and serve as a time-killer. But Me Before You decided otherwise. I am still trying to recover from the emotional damage it caused me.

I think the worst part is that the movie actually started so innocently. The colors, the humor and the weird clothes Lou wore - it didn't give any hint that I was going to cry my eyes out later.

Louisa "Lou" Clark is this cheerful and silly girl who starts working for a man named Will Traynor whom she's hired to care for. Will used to be everything you'd imagine a person with a perfect life to be. He was rich, handsome, successful and adventurous. Until an accident left him paralysed from the neck down. He doesn't care about life anymore. He's bitter, angry, just existing and has made a decision to end his life through assistant suicide in six months.

That's what Lou walks into, six months with a man who has already decided he wants to die. Lou walks into his life wearing bright clothes and a big smile. She talks too much, laughs too loud and manages to ignore how rude Will is at first. Slowly, she gets through to him. She became the one person who made him laugh again, gets him to talk and bring back color into his dark world. Admist all the laughter, jokes and sarcasm, they fell in love. That is why it hurt the most. Because I started hoping that maybe her light is enough to change Will's mind about everything. But no.

Will already made a decision about his life before Lou ever came along. Even when she tries to give him reasons to stay, like travelling again, living and loving her, he doesn't. He stands by his decision. He does not want her to live a mediocre lifee with him, does not want her pity or pain. So he sticks to his choice, and Lou had to see the man she loves choose to leave the world.

I can't even explain just how much this movie got to me. Lou and Will's relationship did not last long, but it was beautiful. Their chemistry was beautiful. But I wish the plot could be rewritten. The hope with which Lou looked at Will with shone brightly on her face. Hope that she could get him to change his mind.

I hated Will's decision. I really did. I was expecting him to change his mind, to choose her and to choose to live, even during the last few minutes left in the movie. He didn't, which added to the very real and very unfair part of the ending.

Lou was honestly my favourite character in the movie. Her energy, her awkwardness and the way she tried so hard to stay positive even when she was breaking inside. I don't even think it was out of pity for Will. She really loved him and it showed in every scene. And even though she couldn't change his decision, she changed everything else about those last months with him.

I was sad, angry, touched and strangely satisfied when the movie ended. Me Before You is not just a love story and I am glad I watched it. Even if it me feel broken.

Me Before You is a solid 9 out of 10 stars for me. The movie was beautiful and definitely worth a watch.

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