What a pleasant surprise

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2006)

I started watching this movie late one night, expecting it to be another silly teen movie, but after the first half hour I was hooked. Unfortunately, my wife wasn't watching with me, so I was pleased to see that it was airing again the next day. I taped it, and today, we sat down to Sunday breakfast with A Walk To Remember.
And what a perfect movie for such an occasion - a story about love and decency in which somebody, everyone actually, decided to sweat the details. It was better than good, it was riveting. It was the way life should be - the way people should be, instead of the way they are in real life. For 101 minutes, you feel like you're in a better world.
Well, make that ninety minutes, anyway...
There's a line in the movie Arthur after a prostitute tells Dudley Moore that her mother died when she was six and her father raped her when she was twelve. A sloshed Moore exclaims, "Don't... don't they know what they do to kids?"
This movie begs the question: Doesn't God?