Honest review time: This movie borderline glorifies abuse.
The central plot of this movie is two people falling in love, one figuring out he has cancer, them getting married despite it, and him dying. The way they executed this movie though, is absolutely baffling to me.
This movie lacks structure completely. The passing of time is incredibly hard to judge, never clarified, and often had to be inferred most of the time.
They meet at the beginning of the movie, and within the first 8 minutes of this film they’re moving in together. Their relationship is hollow and feels like watching imaginary people living out a sickly sweet fantasy world.
Both of our main characters have incredibly close friend groups who are for some reason, present during any important parts of the film. Said friends gets overly involved in their relationship, and after his diagnosis, take it upon themselves to plan their wedding that was originally going to be cancelled.
As we get further into the planning, which is founded by crowd donations, the groom becomes increasingly weary of the daunting task of getting married amidst a cancer diagnosis. The bride though, only becomes more insistent about the wedding, despite her fiancé’s genuine concerns about his ailing physical state.
He expresses at one point that he wants to end his cancer treatment early, for he is experiencing such adverse effects from the chemotherapy. In response to the first time we see any real human emotion from these otherwise bland and meaningless characters, she vehemently attacks him and refers to him as a “selfish prick”. She has zero regard for the pain he is experiencing, and when he tries to express it, she completely dismisses it. She wants to get married, regardless of his health and him battling terminal cancer, if he wants to or not. It’s extremely unsettling how the movie frames this behavior as normal, and if anything goes out of it’s way to reward her. The bride says that loosing her husband taught her the deep moral lesson of, “valuing those closest to you in the short time you have with them on this Earth”. If this is the case, why didn’t she listen to him when he was still alive and expressing genuine cries for help, and then demonize him for not putting her first, despite it’s him with the terminal illness??
He is in such dire condition when they get married he dies before he gets to go on their honeymoon- It’s insane to me.
People in this movie act like completely lifeless caricatures of actual human people, vaguely trying to resemble emotion. It’s sick how he is treated throughout this film and literally pressured into marrying this women only to die weeks/months later.
There is such lack of regard to the groom we don’t even meet any of his family. Not one. He is barely given a voice to express his opinion. He is a outline of someone that should, as your central protagonist, be completely fleshed out.
But no one is. In this lame attempt to make something meaningful, they made something completely forgettable, tasteless, and rewards an abusive manipulative spouse.