A Walk to Remember review-highly recommend!

Rating: 10/10 (8 October 2018)

When I first started watching this movie the opening scene caught me by surprise and at the same time made me want to watch the rest of the movie. The movie starts out with Landon Carter, who was a troubled young teenager that seemed to not care what happened to himself or his friends. The beginning scene we see a glimpse of who Landon becomes throughout the movie, he stays and helps pull Clay Gephardt out of the water instead of leaving him there to drown. This scene helps the audience to see that Landon isn't all that bad of a guy, but he likes to keep up his "tough guy" exterior. Landon then meets Jamie Sullivan, when he is forced to do a play at his school for being involved in the incident with Clay Gephardt. Jamie, who is portrayed by Mandy Moore, is the lead in the play and Landon ends up being the male lead. Landon and his friends love to make fun of Jamie mainly because she is a very "homely" girl and likes to spend her free time tutoring kids at the tutoring center. Landon soon realizes that to perform well in the play he needs help running lines and asks Jamie. Now this essentially hurts his "tough guy" persona so he tries to keep it a secret and as lowkey as possible. One of the more iconic scenes in the movie, in my opinion, is when Jamie finds Landon in the hallway, while he's surrounded by his friends, and asks him if they are going to run lines later. To keep up his "tough guy" act and their lowkey friendship he says to her "In your dreams" this in turn makes Jamie rethink helping him and she decides to ignore him. Landon shows up at her house one night with a pink sweater, he believes this will help her be not so mad at him for trying to be "secret friends." When they first started running lines together Jamie told Landon not to fall in love her, he thought she was crazy and believed he could never fall in love with someone like her. The night of the big play Landon kissed Jamie at the very end, which was not scripted but made a great ending to the school play and showed Landons true feelings toward Jamie. Jamie was caught by surprise when Landon stuck up for her in their school cafeteria when his "friends" made a very disturbing poster of Jamie. That scene was another iconic one, in my opinion, it added a sense of softness and showed how protective Landon is over Jamie. It also showed that he was in fact beginning to fall for Jamie whether he liked it or not. He asked Jamie to go out with him that same night, she respectfully said she couldn't and that she wasn't allowed to date. Landon then went to her dad and asked him if he could take his daughter on a date, I love this scene in the movie because once again it shows how much he respects Jamie. Before their date officially starts Jamie shares a list of things she wants to do before her life ends, she keeps her number one a secret but tells Landon a few of them, being, she wants a tattoo and she wants to be in two places at once. On their date Landon makes those two things happen for Jamie, they straddle the state line meaning she's in two places at once and gives her a temporary butterfly tattoo on her shoulder. This scene like many others proves that Landon does in fact care for Jamie. At the very end of their date they walk out on a pier and Jamie says the iconic quote, "It's like the wind, I can't see it but I can feel it." Landon looks at Jamie and says, "I might kiss you" and Jamie says back "I might be bad at it," Landon then turns back to her and says, "that's not possible." Jamie stands there a minute in awe, and says, "I told you not to fall in love with me." This scene in the movie is kind of the turning point where Landon does in fact realize that he is in love with Jamie. Time passes, we see Jamie and Landon walking down the street and see that Jamie seems troubled about something. Landon starts asking Jamie questions about her future and she doesn't answer, he then asks her what's wrong. Her eyes fill with tears and tells Landon that she is sick, he tries to tell her to go home and she will be better tomorrow, but she explains to him that she has leukemia. This scene shows Landon breaking down and how much he cares for Jamie. Landon goes to his father, that he doesn't have a relationship with, and asks him for help. His dad shoots him down but when Jamie is admitted to the hospital we find out that Landons dad is paying for a home care service so that she will be able to stay home. When she arrives back home Landon had built her a telescope that she planned on building before she got too sick. This is where Landon asks Jamie to marry him and spend the rest of her life with him. This scene fulfils every expectation of what everyone wanted to happen. Jamie tells Landon that the number one thing on her list was to marry in the church that her dead mother grew up in. Jamie and Landon then married in that church and got a summer together before Jamie passed. The very end scene is such a tear jerker, it is Landon on the same pier where they had their first actual kiss and he expresses that Jamie saved his life and we will forever miss her and he says, "But our love is like the wind, I can't see it, but I can feel it." Overall this movie fulfilled everything I wanted and more. I personally have watched this movie so many times and it just gets better every time. I was so sad when the movie ended because I wanted to see more but at the same time the ending couldn't have been any better, it showed how much Jamie helped Landon become a better person all around. This movie was so well written and told a beautiful love story. If you are looking for a beautiful love story, a heartwarming and tearful ending, A Walk to Remember is definitely for you.