Unlike anything else

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2010)

I've heard so much about this film, and had always planned on seeing it. I was bored one day and decided to put it in.
This movie is the one and only movie to ever make me full-out cry. I cannot and will not watch this film with anyone else as I just can't control myself. I know it's coming; I know what and where, but it tugs at my heartstrings so badly there is no way I can resist. Sure, other movies have made me tear up (the other version of The Little Mermaid, where she dies at the end, the end of AI, parts of Legends of the Fall...)but with this one, I found myself fully weeping as if it were happening to me.
I'm a sucker for love stories, and people who love each other. I myself have had nothing but bad luck with my love life, and have searched long and hard for "the one". Not able to find it, 3 marriages later, I like to watch love movies and wish I could find someone with that kind of love and dedication for me. It becomes a very personal matter, so it hits me pretty hard when cheating or reunions or whatever come up.
I found the story of their meeting and separating very realistic and heartbreaking. Everything that happened to them seemed extreme to me, and I wanted to take the characters and just help them out. Get together! Love each other! Don't go away! You know what I mean...
The "twist", if it was truly meant to be one, wasn't a twist at all to me, but that doesn't change the emotional impact that comes with it. It's such a depressing and sad story, it stayed in my head so long I always want to watch it- but then again I want it to be fresh, because if you lose the feeling you lose the entire essence of the movie itself. So I stay away, and just remember it.
If you are a fan of truly deep love stories, love stories to put all other love stories to shame, then definitely pick this one up. Not a good idea to watch in front of others if you're a crier, or ashamed of it.