"There was no car chases, not one gun-fight, and no f*cking explosions!" That's what most men who have been dragged to see Me Before You will be thinking when they leave the cinema; but if they can just pull their heads out of their asses for just a minute they might find a film that's funny, witty, sad and for the most part, will leave you with a smile.
Me Before You sees the Mother Of Dragons become an in-house carer for Tywin Lannister's quadriplegic son (full disclosure, this is not the type of film I usually watch so it's more enjoyable when I imagine that they're playing the characters they're better known for.) So Danerys is providing at home care for that smarmy guy from The Hunger Games, and as their trust between one another grows, so does the divide between Kahlessi and her boyfriend in the film Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series. But the big question is, "do the FBI know that the CIA are setting them up?"
In all seriousness, this is quite a good film. It's filled with humour and inevitable heartache that manages to treat the subject of disability with dignity, although the overarching message coming from the quadriplegic character may be viewed as insensitive towards people in the same situation. Putting this aside though, and I hope I’m not sounding too xenophobic here, but I feel many of the positive elements of this movie is due to the fact that it is a British film. The movie has British humour and British sensibilities that makes it less cringeworthy than how an American cast and crew may have handled the same subject by avoiding the need to over-dramatise situations in favour of more relatable human moments.
Emilia Clarke shows some range in her role here and after failing to win people over as Sarah Connor in last year's Terminator Genesys, she may have found a sweet spot in cinema post-Game Of Thrones in Romantic Dramas for the next decade or so. You have every cast member acting the sh*t out of their roles and the film manages to avoid the groaning cliches almost up until the end. As we hit the final act of the film we begin getting hit with a higher frequency of cliched dialogue, but of course as we enter the final act the sniffle ratio in the cinema will dramatically increase, so be sure to bring your tissues - unless you're like me, and are dead inside.
Ultimately, it's an enjoyable movie with a bittersweet ending that is passable counter-programming to the Summer blockbusters of the season. Sure the films problems probably would have been resolved if Clarke had three dragons but if it's a tear-jerker that you're looking for then jerk no further than Me Before You.
Me Before You gets three and a half soggy soggy snot-filled tissues.
No comments:
Post a Comment