Me Before You (Review Movie/Book)

The Book:

Let me start by saying, the book was one of the most amazing things I've read, its the most real, romantic, sadistic thing I could've put myself through. The way Jojo writes its like Im living the story myself and its funny because that is something I do, I like to pretend Im the character.

Me Before You, it was like taking a trip through your life without noticing, it makes you think about the past and the future, realising how many dreams you've left behind. The story is like any other and in some kind of way we like to call this a cliché, how the rich guy ends up in the lowest part of his life and he mets this poor girl who is crazy and it changes everything, but this book its not that easy, this isn't just a love story, it is a trip to find yourself, to love yourself and do the things you always wanted to do. She was crazy, and stuck in her small town, and she was okay with that, she didn't thought she had other options, and for a while it was like that. Her family was in need and the jealousy of her sister mixed with the love and how proud she was of her was blowing her mind, and in some kind of way it was like she wanted to be like her sister, and some people can relate to that, of how unfair things seem between siblings but no matter what they stay together. Now to the actual part of the book. My favourite thing is that it wasn't always nice, it was hard, it was sad and heartbreaking at times, how she didn't realise how much she was falling for him and how he tried to ignore his feelings for her, how she opens herself about her insecurities with him, how her life was like it was for all the things in her past and it makes you realise how much a bad experience can change a life in just seconds, it didn't sugarcoat things because he was rude and trying to push away everyone and everything, he didn't want to doubt about his decision, he didn't want to have a reason to stay because no matter what happen everything would be the same for him, it was like sacrificing yourself for everyone else, and thinking that by pushing them away life would be easier for them, they won't feel the loss as much but who wants to spend the last seconds of your life alone? I can't read anything else after this and its been like two months, but it left me so sad and aching for someone. They were little details of how he would remember things she said a long time ago, like with the stockings, or how she was starting to doubt her own realonship realising how she thought she was living when all she was doing was surviving. And I can't deny how good everything was put that with all the hardships, the broke up, the compromise, the moving in and out, above all they could be really them with each other. It was hard seeing how everything unfolded and watching the characters develop into a totally different person, it was so amazing but at the same time with all this hardships and sadness the book wasn't annoying nor repetitive and the end was so unexpected I still can't wrap up my mind around it, but I love the fact that it was like real life, it can't always be good, you can't always have everything you want and even if I sobbed into my pillow for like tree hours I wouldn't change it for the world.

The movie:

I was so excited about this, like one of my favourite books is turning into a movie! YEY! I knew it wasn't going to be the same but for me the actors where really good, Emilia Clark was really amazing and I can't explain how happy I was feeling when I went to the movies that day. I'll be honest about this, the movie was awful, even if Emilia was good in some parts I felt like in the trailer I could feel more of the book than in the movie, it was lacking the juice of the story, the main idea and instead was just lots of sappy moments just to make it happier like trying to compensate the sad ending. I felt like Sam Claflin didn't do a good job, don't take me wrong, he is a good actor and really cute but he was lacking the feeling and I know its a really hard part because you have to express everything with your face and eyes, and I didn't feel anything of that, it made me sad because even in the saddest parts I couldn't feel anything. But what angers me the most is how much they cut the story, they didn't put any of the hardships, they didn't show us how bad things where, they didn't put Louisa's back story and Im sorry if you disagree but that was a really important part, they showed Will like a cute, rich boy who couldn't move, and he was more than that, he was arrogant and annoying, he was sarcastic and sweet, he was in that part where everything is starting to look amazing and he couldn't be part of it, but in the movie he wasn't like that, and it made me so mad. I hate how they didn't put how Patrick told the press about Will's decision or how they changed the fact that Will's mother called Louisa because they needed her there, how she started doubting everything she knew because he needed her, how can they change that? How can they cut her crying because she thought he was dead? It was important. Im sorry, Im still mad because this was supposed to be a real movie, something different with every part even if some of the happy parts where cut but in our time people care more about a pretend happy ending, with handsome actors an a cliché story without fundaments nor real life actions.

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