A Walk To Remember

There are a few movies that really touched my heart. I haven't read the book by Nicholas Sparks but saw the movie version of his novel, A Walk To Remember.

A teeny-bopper movie really, but it has its lessons. A love story between a happy-go-lucky boy and a nerdy girl whom is always the laughing stock of the school. But what they don't know is the the girl (played by Mandy Moore) has this inner peace within her and accepted her fate wholeheartedly. She is sick and dying of leukemia.

Well the boy fell in love with her despite the fact his friends turned their backs on him for doing so. Because the girl made him feel like there is something good in him, he can be the best he can be and to go on following him dreams. She inspired him.

There were lots of sweet moments, like the girl has a list of "to do" things before she goes and one by one the boy makes them all come true. Until the girl told him the truth which devastates the boy (played by Shane West, by the way). So angry was the boy because now that his life is getting better, he's going to lose the one person who made it so.

But he reconciled with his dad who left him and his mom. He learned to forgive and let his anger subsides to the people who hurted him. He got faith. He learned to accept his girlfriends fate and did the best he could to make her remaining life a good one.

She is not afraid to die, only scared to leave the guy behind.
She has no reason to get angry with God, but now she has.
But both of them find consolation in each other's love for one another. They even got married.

I love movies that inspires. My tears fell on one scene when the boy came to his father's place, crying, when the dad opened the door, he just stood there crying and the father came near and they hugged, tight, while the boy kept saying sorry.

A poignant movie of young love and the power it has in changing people's lives.
the girl's last on the list was to witness a miracle. This one was a difficult task for the boy to do and was saddened when the girl pased away without seeing that miracle. But the father of the girl told the boy after four years, when the boy is already in college and in medschool. That the miracle the girl had been waiting for indeed came true. It was the boy. It was him. Because his life was changed and that indeed was a miracle.

Plus the soundstrack is realy good. Sang by Mandy Moore herself, Only Hope and Cry.

I'm a hopeless romantic though some say the movie is simple, but that's not really it. It is always the message, the feelings, the emotions you get and feel which for me is a great movie.
A Walk To Remember.