Nothing Special But Sweet Nonetheless

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2016)

Judging by the trailer for Me Before You, you already know the kind of ride you're in for. It's a tear-jerker about a quirky girl who takes up a job looking after a cynical paraplegic. It's not long before they fall in love with one another, despite their differences, and it either ends happily ever after or in tragedy.
I won't reveal which of these endings are true, however I must say that despite the predictability of this film, there are certain themes in the movie that I wasn't expecting to delve into. Without exposing too much, the issue of euthanasia crops up and whilst it's a polarising topic, I think the film deals with it in a very fair and two-sided way. Both sides of the coin are justified and it's a very complex theme that doesn't have a simple answer.
The acting is effortless and real between the two main characters. Lou Clark is played by GOT's mother of dragons Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin plays Will Traynor, who you might recognise from The Hunger Games franchise and Love, Rosie. The film is actually based on a New York Times bestseller by Jojo Moyes who also wrote the screenplay. I'm a big fan of novelists writing their own screenplay adaptations as I believe that no one knows their own story and vision like the person who wrote the original text.
This isn't a film that you can expect big things from, but it tells a sweet story that's funny, sad and inspiring in some ways too with many a lesson to be learned.
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