Composition movie

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2008)

If there was a school composition with the theme "romance", maybe "A Walk to Remember" is perfect for being written down. Because this film is like a composition: introduction, development and conclusion, in 30 lines or less, with no vacancy for those roller-coaster events that keep your eyes on the screen. It's too closed to its romantic context, never going up and down to tell us something special. Simple plot that ends in a boring and predictable hour-and-half picture. That may explain why teenagers loved it: they identify themselves and their lives. And it's really possible to identify someone, but, being one of those people who go to the movies expecting something else to run away from my routine (and we are only few), I disliked it. Of course, there are cool events, just like the "being in two places at the same time" scene, and Shane West and Mandy Moore are a nice couple, but it gets into nothing when you compare to the obvious metaphors used and to the moments that are lost with songs that tells you nothing. I think it's a great movie to be watched by non-demanding couples that will pay more attention to each other than to the movie. Unremarkably picture, good for teens and couples because it's easy to swallow. A 5/10 for me.