A Walk To Remember
Pauline and I watched the movie A Walk To Remember by Mandy Moore and Shane West this afternoon. It is a 2002 film set in the mid-1990s Wow, an inspiring show, that really makes me ponder. haha. Well, what is love?
The tagline of the show is: Love is like the wind. You can't see it but you can feel it.
Totally agree with that phrase. I never thought that love can be discribed as wind. But yeah, we can't see but only feel.
A summary of the Show:
When a prank on a fellow high-school student goes wrong, Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and acting in the drama club's Spring play. At these functions he is forced to interact with Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), a girl he has known for many years but with whom he rarely interacted. When Landon realizes that he needs help learning his lines for the play, he asks Jamie for help. She agrees to help him if he promises not to fall in love with her, to which he responds, "That's not a problem", thinking she was the last person with whom he would ever fall in love. Later, Jamie asks Landon if they were still on for practice that afternoon to which he replies, "Only in your dreams", because he was with his friends. When Landon goes to her house for practice, she refuses to open the door. When she eventually does, she sarcastically remarks that they can be "secret friends." She slams the door in his face when he agrees.
Landon eventually learns the script by himself. During the play, Jamie, who is wearing her costume, astounds Landon with her beauty. Landon kisses Jamie during the play, which was not in the play's script, and the two pursue a relationship afterwards. He takes her out to dinner and helps her with her wish list, like being in two places at once and getting a tattoo (it's a temporary in the movie).
Jamie finally tells Landon that she has terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. As Jamie is hospitalized, Landon fulfills various wishes on Jamie's list, such as building her a telescope so she can see a comet. Through this process, Landon and Jamie learn more about the nature of love. The movie ends with Jamie's death, but only after the couple are married in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list. Landon himself becomes a better person through Jamie's memory, achieving the goals that he set out to do, like she did.
Four years later, Landon visits Jamie's father. It is obvious that Jamie helped him to focus and become a better person. For example, he reveals he has finished college and been accepted to medical school; prior to meeting her he had no plans for life after high school. He tells Jamie's father that he is sorry he could not grant Jamie's wish to witness "a miracle" before she died. Her father says, "She did. It was you."
Mandy Moore is a girl full of Faith. She did not blamed God for the terminal illness at her very young age. She live her life righteous even when everyone else outcast her in her school. She did what was right. She was outcast because she was "HOLY". But God was good, she gave her someone that accompanied her to her deathbed. Even though it was just a short moment or period of time before she left, but she experienced the miracle before her death, which is Shane West.
The show was touching because it shows the power of LOVE. However, after watching the movie, I realised every relationship with one another is a walk to remember. Life is really short and precious. Though you may be healthy, but we can't predict accidents. Nowadays, even exercising (the most important activity in our live) can be an accident. So my point is, we should treasure all our time with one another, give surprises ocassionally, dun wait till the next time or next meeting, cause there may be no more NEXT!
To me, every relationship to me is a walk to remember. Because, there is something special in all relationship that I treasure.
Enjoy the song...only hope. :)
Being loved,
Freda