Haven't seen the original movie.
When I first saw the movie poster, I thought it was a story of mutual redemption. In all bright places, there will be me and you. . . But in the end, the brightness you gave me was exchanged with your life.
Being able to feel to Finch from the start is problematic, but it's not that obvious, like a smile or bright version of depression, or bipolar, but the film doesn't explicitly say what's wrong with Finch, Maybe it should be an unlabeled question as the male protagonist said in the support group (maybe a call to pay more attention to teenagers' mental health problems, rather than trying to label or only focus on a few problems, but I haven't seen it yet. book, understood only from the film), anyway, he's far from being okay.
When Finch saw Violet by the bridge, maybe V's despair made him feel something at that moment, or maybe when he saw a darker place than him, he became the brighter side, just like that, V was caught by him Rescue slowly. And when V began to become brighter, F became the dark side accordingly. This is when the four of them were sitting at booth and chatting happily, and F began to lose his eyes and sank into the dark abyss.
I always thought that F would not end his life easily, at least he tried to go to that support group, at least he would still try hard to change himself, at least he was scared when V saw him sink into the lake and didn't come up, He'd be really anxious to explain that that was the last thing he wanted to do, make V scared and worried, at least he'd try to open up to V, even just a little bit. .
However, after he took V out all night and was called away by V's parents, V was not by his side for a while (he just slides into his normal blankness and unconscious darkness),
After he met his classmates in the support group (he was always labeled as "freak" by the school's people, he probably didn't want to really open his heart in front of the people he knew, and gradually felt that this group was not safe or trustworthy),
When he chatted with his sister "for help" (the sister didn't want to talk to him about his father, and was in a hurry to do business, didn't really notice F's distress signal),
The life-saving straws that can brighten him up and let him stay awake and stay away from darkness have instead become hemp ropes that hold him tighter. In this way, he may be suffocated by this suffocating confusion and loss of control that I don’t know how to define. Pushed to the darkest place - the bottom of the lake, and stayed there forever, no longer struggling to wake up.
Then he left the bright places (probably where he found to keep him awake) that he found during his struggles to perhaps his favorite Violet, just like the ending of Me before you, please carry on with the only light I have left Shine, I'm sorry for not being able to keep shining.
I watched this movie without reading the introduction. The most shocking thing is the end of Finch's final life, but I still feel that the movie is a bit crude. Many parts of the book may not be presented, or there may be many parts of the film. I didn't pay attention or noticed the content conveyed by the surrounding characters. I hope to get more answers and inspiration from the original work and the text.
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