"I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more." -Will Traynor
What a legitimately sad movie. Sad in the best way. Sadness can encompass joy, solace, and relief. This makes Me Before You a unique and wonderfully strange date movie. Seriously, this could only be the worst or the best first date movie ever. Nothing in between. At it's best, everyone cries. And everyone emerges from the darkness better for the journey. At it's worst, the date descends into soul crushing despair and never recovers.
So in short, most films would stop at nothing to achieve one tenth of the emotional depth of Me Before You. But the rest of the film from acting to writing to editing and music is slightly below average. So yeah...a really emotionally moving meh.
Emotional connection is really the hardest thing to engender in a film. Really well done, Director Thea Sharrock.
On a scale of The Marianas Trench to Sea Level, I give Me Before You 3.1 out of 5 stars.
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