I got a bit teary during the scene when bad boy West knocked on his father's door after he found out dad had payed for Moore's treatment, and they embraced and cried. That got me a bit. But I'm still a man!!
*punches fist through wall*
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I hear ya... The Switchfoot songs throughout the movie contribute to the water-works also.
shareThis made me more annoyed than emotional, cause they lead to this scene by having Landon asking his dad to check the ill girl, who happens to be a *beep* CARDIOLOGIST, which has nothing to do with Jamie's cancer.
shareYeah that was stupid, he's like "GODDAMMIT DAD FIRST YOU LEAVE US NOW YOU CAN'T EVEN CURE MY GIRLFRIEND'S CANCER YOU'RE THE WORST DAD EVER!"
shareMan, tough crowd. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of 18 year olds whose fathers happen to be physicians don't have a clue as to their specialties and/or what they entail. What happens to most people when they find out a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer? Probably freak out, just like Landon. While it's not the nearly automatic death sentence now that it was even 40 years ago, it's no damn walk in the park either. So, here he is finding out the love of his life has what is potentially a fatal disease and he goes to his physician father for help. What's he supposed to do? Oh, hey right dad, I forgot you're a heart doctor, not an oncologist - my bad - sorry to bother you..... Give the guy a break.
shareHe's supposed to not be a dumbass and expect his dad to cure cancer.
It's funny though, that after he freaks out he jumps on the opportunity: This is a Christian girl, so she won't have sex before marriage, but then if she's going to die in 3 months lets just get married and *beep* the summer away!
When Landon was driving back from from his father's, I believe that's the time he accepted that Jamie had an incurable disease, and he resolved to stay with Jamie and do whatever he could to make her as happy as possible in the time she had left. Upon returning to his own home, he told Eric, 'She's the best person I've ever known." -- the "best" person, not the sexiest, nor the hottest. Everything he did from that moment on, was aimed at meeting as many of Jamie's final wishes as he could -- building the telescope for her to see the comet, getting married in the church her parents were married in (#1 on her wish list). He wasn't being a dumbass. Once he recovered from the total shock of the situation, he acted as a person deeply in love with someone he would all-too-soon lose.
Rest in peace, Roger Ebert. You were the best.
But marriage has absolutely no meaning when the person you're marrying is going to die in a few months. Marriage becomes meaningful when it's a promise of living a life together, otherwise its just a workaround to the whole "christians can't have sex before marriage" problem. (Muslims do the same thing, many of them enter into "temporary marriage" contracts)
shareIn the book A Walk to Remember that this movie is based on, Jamie was so sick during the wedding ceremony she could barely walk down the aisle (the "walk to remember"), and had to return to her wheelchair once she reached the altar. Following the wedding, it's doubtful they even had sex, given her terminal condition. Landon married her to help her achieve everything she wanted to do in her life, and given that her days were numbered, they had to accelerate getting to the remaining items on her wish-list. If Landon was simply after sex, he could bed down Belinda virtually anytime he wanted -- she was more than willing.
Rest in peace, Roger Ebert. You were the best.
Yeah but he's already banged Belinda so she has no value any more. Most men lose interest in a girl shortly after sex.
Maybe he has a weird fetish for sickly women. :P
Either way, getting married has no meaning if you're going to drop dead in a few weeks.
Either way, getting married has no meaning if you're going to drop dead in a few weeks.
Sure, the vast majority of people marry with the intention/hope that they'll have decades together. But to unequivocally state a union has absolutely no meaning if two individuals choose to marry with the full knowledge that one of them may have a very short time horizon, is ridiculous. I guarantee if you were to ask two such people, they would wholeheartedly disagree with your opinion.
sharei kind of agree with this. every time i hear his dad go 'i'm a cardiologist' i roll my eyes because could landon be so dumb as to never not have paid attention to what kind of doctor his father was? but i think the point was at that moment he was so distraught, all he could think was 'my dad's a doctor. he can help'.
shareI'll still maintain, as mentioned in an earlier post, that Landon may have "known" his dad was a Cardiologist, but I doubt he was really up on the particulars - he probably didn't even care. However, your last sentence is absoulutely spot on. He was freaked out, his dad is a doctor, and doctors heal...
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