P.S. I Love You, Movie worth Watching

Rating: 8/10 (5 December 2008)

The plot of this movie is about a young widow who discovers that her late husband left her 10 letters to help ease her pain and start life all over again .Hilary Swank who plays Holly Kennedy and her husband Gerard Buttler who plays Gerry are the main characters. Other characters like Holly's mother (Kathy Bates) and her two sisters Denise and Sharon (Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon) appear later in the movie. This movie starts with its first setting at the couples Manhattan apartment in New York City. The director does a good job by using his camera's high angle position which makes the apartment appear very small and crowded as he introduces us to their life. He also uses a Low angle camera position making the couple appear larger in a small apartment to put emphasize on how small the apartment is. The second setting events take place at Holly's mother's bar where their friends and family meet often. This is also a setting that the director uses for Gerry's memorial ceremony as we see all his friends and family gather to bid him goodbye.
The director shows us their love by focusing a close- up shot not once but many times as they kiss each other and all there is, is their faces on the screen. After suffering from a brain tumor and later dying from it, Gerry leaves behind the 10 letters distributed to different people (his friends) instructing them of when to dispatch them to his wife. The letters would come to her in an organized manner instructing her of what to do when, how and with whom. She forgets everything and starts living for the letters. Here the director focuses on her emotions as he brings to us close-up shots again when she cries lying in bed.
This movie will make you smile, choke up or even wet your eyes. No drama or romance movie has ever hit home like this. You will be left appreciating life and mostly the people you care about. Produced by the same producer of "The Devil wears Prada" you know what to expect. Its title "I love you" is based on the best selling novel by Cecelia Ahern. Sometimes, what there is to say is P.S. I LOVE YOU! Rating : 4/5