8 stars for the book and 6 for the movie

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2018)

'Me before you' based on the great female author book, Jojo Moyes, has impacted millions of viewers worldwide. Directed by Thea Sharrock as her forth work after 'Call the Midwife', one can call the movie 'a pinch of Moyes's book'. There are numerous fascinating facts about this movie that we can point to such as: the professional author, performing cast and decoration and costume design and etc, however, it let down many readers as they expected a masterpiece. There were numerous deletions in the movie which can lead to misunderstandings and wrong judgements. For instance, while one is reading the book, s/he is constantly bothered by the way Patrick treats Lou. Many book sections are removed which was dedicated to the Pat and Lou's relationship which let the reader sympathize with Lou and give her the full right to break up, however, in the movie, Lou just breaks up with Pat to be with Will. That was absolutely not fair. Plus, Georgina, Will's sister is removed with traces. Not only the deletion is irritating, but also the whole picture of a depressed quadriplegic rich kid, falling in love with a poor lively girl is a teenage drama. The question is what if Will was poor?! Did the whole thing happened at all?! Now that Will has decided to end his life, does Lou help any other person with this condition just for the sake of it?! The hero and the heroine of the both film and the book lacked glorifying characteristics despite the director and authors attempts to show them unique. Although, Lou and Will were no supposed to be the role model of the world, they could broaden their horizons apart from their own small self.
The traces of Moyes emotional style of writing can be vividly observed in the movie specially the way, awesome Ellie Clarke appears as Lou and handsome Sam Claflin as Will. While book is unable to present its readers with live images, movie makes it a piece of cake. The use of colors in the movie transmits the full sense of emotion which is provoked while reading the book. Lou's house is full of emotions, life and color while the Traynor's house is just a cold building which is later brighten up by Lou. The great costumes also represent Lou only through vision. However, no one can deny the fact that an author, in comparison to a director, has more time to elaborate on the story and break the limits and this justifies the claim that a film is weaker than a book despite the fact that technology is making it easy day by day to produce noble films.