"Before I Met You" Small Insights

Zelda 2022-10-20 18:31:34

The male protagonist is really a very attractive person. When he is willful, he is like a child. He expresses his thoughts frankly. When he encounters people and things he likes, he will sincerely praise him. No accident happens is a person who holds the script of winners in life. The heroine and the hero are people from completely different worlds. She has financial pressure from the family. She does not have a high vision but also has dreams. She does not care about the worldly vision and always shows an infectious smile. It feels radiant. I think she is very similar to the male protagonist before the accident in that she has been living her life seriously.

Before watching it, I was influenced by some comments, they said, "What's the use, the male protagonist still sticks to his original choice." After I watched the film, this trouble was solved. After watching the film, you will know that this is not a question of whether the male protagonist chooses to die or the female protagonist. He did not choose to die because he had little love for the heroine, and his love for the heroine was no match for his fear of life. You can't drink enough water, and many places in the movie also show the fragility of the male protagonist's body. With the appearance of the female protagonist, I think the change for him is to make him take life as seriously as before and face his choices magnanimously. The heroine has also become a mark in his heart. The male protagonist also redeemed the female protagonist, and she made the female protagonist more courageous to try to live her life wonderfully. I quite like this ending.

The only thing that feels uncomfortable is that the setting of this film is too ideal, and the male protagonist's family is simply inhuman.

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Me Before You quotes

  • Will Traynor: I have to tell you something.

    Lou Clark: I know. I know about Switzerland, I have known for months. Listen I know this is not how you would have chosen it, but I can make you happy.

    Will Traynor: No.

    Lou Clark: What?

    Will Traynor: No Clarke. This could be a good life, but it's not my life, it's not even close. You never saw me before. I loved my life. I really loved it. I can't be the kind of man who just accepts this.

    Lou Clark: You're not giving it a chance, you're not giving me a chance. I have become a whole new person these last six months because of you.

    Will Traynor: I know and that's why I can't have you tied to me. I don't want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you. And selfishly I don't what you to look at me one day and feel event the tiniest bit of regret or pity.

    Lou Clark: I would never think that!

    Will Traynor: You don't know that. I can't watch you wandering around the annex in your crazy dresses. Or see you naked and not be able to... oh Clarke if you have any idea what I want to do to you right now. I can't live like this.

    Lou Clark: Please Will! Please!

    Will Traynor: Shh. Listen, this, tonight being with you is the most wonderful thing you could have ever done for me. But I need it to end here. No more pain and exhaustion and waking up every morning already wishing it was over. It's not going to get better than this. The doctors know it and I know it. When we get back, I'm going to Switzerland so I'm asking you if you feel the things you say you feel. Come with me.

    Lou Clark: I thought I was changing your mind!

    Will Traynor: Nothing was ever going to change my mind. I promised my parents six months and that's what I have given them.

    Lou Clark: No! Don't say another word. You're so selfish. I tore my heart out in front of you and all you can say is no. And now you want me to come and watch the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Do you have any idea what you're asking? I wish I had never taken this stupid job. I wish I had never met you.

  • Lou Clark: You don't have to be an arse! Your friends got the shitty treatment. Fine *They* deserved it. *I'm* just trying to do my job as best I can. So it would be really nice if you didn't try and make my life as miserable as you apparently make everyone else's.

    Will Traynor: And what if I said I didn't want you here?

    Lou Clark: I'm not employed by you. I'm employed by your mother. So unless *she* says she doesn't want me here anymore, I'm staying. Not because I care about you, or particularly enjoy your company, but because I need the money. I *really* need the money.