HI, I'm Steph, 20 from Warrington! I also write on the review site DooYoo under the same name :) Th...
HI, I'm Steph, 20 from Warrington! I also write on the review site DooYoo under the same name :) Thanks to everyone who rates me, especially the E's! I am very grateful for all rates! :o)
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I read the book PS I love you by Cecilia Ahern a good few years ago now, and loved it so much, and when the film came out, I was at first very excited, and then decided I didn't want to watch it since most of the time the film of books ruins the story!
So I didn't go watch it, but I was disappointed that I hadn't when I heard peoples reviews on the film, but by that time it was too late, and I had to buy it if I wanted to watch it, but as a poor student, I didn't have money to waste on DVDs. So my only thing to do was to wait until it came back on the movie channels...
it had been so long since I had read the book that the story really wasn't in my head anymore, apart from I knew that the story revolved around a man and wife, the man dying of a brain tumour and the wife been left to get over him.
Holly and Gerry have been happily married since they fell in love in Ireland when Holly was on a college visit with her art school, and have been together ever since.
When Gerry developes a brain tumour and knows he is going to die, he writes his wife notes which are to be given to Holly (sent in the post) throughout the year after his death, these notes tell her to do things that month whcih she has been too scared to do before.
Holly takes her husbands death very hard, Gerry was her life, and she doesn't know how she is going to live without him, and so the notes he leaves her makes her feel like her husband is still around even though he is gone.
The film is about Holly getting over her husbands death and trying to get on with her life.
The saddest scene in the film for me is when Holly in lying in bed, and her husband is "lying" behind her, we can see him there, but he isn't really there, if you understand what I mean...!!! And she says "I can feel you hugging me" and he says "thats because I am", I don't know what it is about that little 1 minute clip of the film that makes me cry, but it does, its so so sad, and I think it just reminds me of me and my husband, and it just makes me think of my life if he wasn;t in it, and just really upsets me.
The whole film is like this for me, as the book was. I was pretty much crying the whole way through the film, its as though I emphasise with Holly as a character even though I have never been through what she has, I feel like I have as I can feel that horrible hurt and missing-ness from my life as though my husband wasn't here.
I really would not watch this film without a box of tissues as even the person with the coldest heart would shed a tear!
If you liked the book you will love this film, unlike many remakes of novels, this film sticks pretty much to the story of the film, although if I re-read the book I suppose I would see alot of differences, so if you have recently read the book, I would wait a few months to watch the film! :)
Other than that, there is nothing at all I dont love about this film, the characters are believable, the storyline is believable, its an amazing film!!!! SO soooo sad!!!
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