P.S. I Love you
By: Somang Min Kyoung
Tags: Personal, Ps I Love You, Blog, Writing Prompts

P.S. I Love you

Day 6: Favorite movie

I can say that I’m a fan of the classics. I would prefer pride and prejudice over the recent young adult any day.

P.S. I Love You was a truly heartbreaking one. It showed the power of love in it’s purest and the most cruelly honest way.

When you love someone the only wish you have is to make a wonderful life together with them. Enjoy the highs and share the lows. Grow old together…

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After Gerry’s death, Holly is a total mess. She has lost the love of her life. Knowing how hard Holly will take his death, Gerry plans ahead.

Beginning on her 30th birthday, she receives the first in a series of letters written by him, designed to ease her grief and encourage her to move forward to a new life. Letters, how romantic!

The main thing I loved about the movie was how it’s based on life of the common people. It’s not the typical rich guy falls for a poor girl type romantic drama. Holly and Gerry are both struggling adults, trying to find their passion and manage their best for the future.

They fight and have episodes when they don’t agree with each other but once the day is over they get back together. The opening scene itself sets the bar high when they return from Holly’s mother’s place after dinner and Holly is angry about “something” Gerry said. Gerry doesn’t even know what he did wrong but he is ready to apologize to his sweet wife, “It was a bad, bad thing I did, and I’m so sorry, luv. Holly, come on, will you?”

The movie has its share of comedy as well,

Are you gonna make me

sleep in the bathtub again?

Their meeting was a true scene of destiny. They were meant to be from the start. Holly met him when she was lost, he found her, literally. Also in the sense of her future, she was indecisive. She was an art student who had no idea what she wanted to do in her future. While Gerry just wanted to have a great life with this girl meeting who had been the end of life as he had known it. (The best pickup line ever I should say)

Even after he was gone, she couldn’t let go of him and Gerry knew it. He made hee let go, one step at a time. The movie didn’t show the time when they were together but the time when they weren’t together.

Every one of us would have imagined a sobbing widow and a sad plot but the movie was anything but. Holly got back on her feet. Found her passion and she knew even if Gerry had left his memories will stay with her forever. She had her family and friends and they will never forget the amazing person he was.

Holly’s mother was always against the marriage.

“You married too early”

But she was the accomplice of Gerry in his last gift for his wife, her sweet daughter. She thought the letters were keeping her trapped in past but in fact, they were pushing her towards her future.

The movie ends with hope. It’s not a happy ending but it’s not a sad one either. The death of someone dear is hard for the ones who are left behind.

The movie had everything for a romance junkie like me, it was touching, was full of comedy, the anticipating moments, surprises, and portrayal of love between Holly and Gerry was just right.

If someone asks me for my best rom-com movie I would recommend P.S. I love you without hesitation.

Cheers to true love!