Deserves a better rating, worth watching

Rating: 9/10 (19 August 2016)

Im not much for romance, but so many people complained they didn't like the ending and Emilia seemed charming enough to watch. Yes, it suffers a few clichés, but i enjoyed it. You might say the pain was downplayed but we saw the story from Lous perspective and not Wills. And as someone who has recently struggled with severe depression I connected to it. I connected to that strange feeling of enjoying some of your time, laughing, enjoying a person you love and at the same time feel horrible. I saw my boyfriends reactions and pain in Clarkes reactions to his pain. I felt this movie. On the other hand, Sams performance was a revelation. I vaguely remember him from The Hunger Games, found him very boring and bland in it. But here, he shined. I believed him in his blank stares, happiness, pain. Not many actors pull that off for me. And of course Emilia's and Sam's relationship is great, they worked wonderfully together.
It has problems of typical romance films, but the story that looms behind it, and pops out is very strong, and well done. We are taken off into the charming romp com world only to be snapped back to the reality of his disability and pain he is in.