Film controversy

Oh I think it was a completely selfish decision. Clearly was just thinking about him and not his family. But can you blame him? No one would want that life.

I went to watch the film today, after having been exposed to the controversy around it, and, as I usually do, I kept an open mind. But I'm going to be honest: I did not like how they told the story.

Look. The problem isn't with what the characters do inside the "movie universe". Will decides to take his own life, for his own reasons. That could happen. The problem is how the movie, that is, the movie makers, *choose* to tell us the story. Movies don't happen on their own. Books don't write themselves.

Let me make this clear. If you think the movie "just tells a story", without voicing an opinion about Will's choice, consider this: There is exactly one scene after Will's suicide, which basically shows us how the world is without Will for those who loved him. And what does this scene show us? Lou, finally being in Paris, reading Will's letter about "living boldly". Now, she didn't want Will to die of course, but nevertheless the feeling we've left when exiting the cinema is this: Bittersweet memories for those that were left behind, and potential.


Now, in order to realize that what a movie *chooses* to show us is never "innocent", let's do a small experiment: Imagine a movie that told the *exact* same story, except the last scene shows us how the world is without Will from the pov of his parents(which were the 2 persons that loved him the most, right? I mean, in real-life, non-romantic-movie universe, your mom and dad love you more than the girl that knew you for 6 months, no matter how much she cared about you). What would it show? Nothing but 2 wretched human beings, ghosts in an empty castle, spending their remaining days with nothing to wait, nothing to look forward to, just the knowledge that their son *could* still have a good life, but chose not to, because he couldn't bear the thought of not having an *amazing* one. Nothing "bittersweet" here, just bitter, no potential, just a waste. Nothing more.

Keep in mind, that is most probably what was happening in that castle, at the same time Lou was strolling around Paris. Did we see it? Nope. It would be a very different ending, it would leave us with a very different feeling, had we seen *that* instead, no? This is why the movie-any movie- doesn't just "tell a story". We didn't see "life after Will" from the pov of his parents, because the movie simply chose to turn the camera to Lou instead. And it did that, because it wanted us to leave the cinema with that image in our minds. And that is a choice. And, since I believe Will's suicide resulted in nothing but waste of potential, and in a world that is *not* better, but significantly worse for some, I do have a problem with the choice the movie made.

Clearly, the rich, good-looking guy was so bummed in his new life, he would rather die. He still had money. He still had a beautiful woman.

My grandma and grandad both had alzeimers. An awful, cruel illness. They wouldn't have wanted to be like that and if the choice had been there they'd have wanted to go in a dignified way.
Sometimes when you're ill you have to think about yourself and not others. He couldve died at any time. He chose to do it his way whilst he knew what he was doing. For all we know had he not done it he could've ended up in a coma etc.

Yeah, the people who claim that the movie's "message" is that disabled people should kill themselves to not be a burden on their families are idiots who probably weren't paying attention or just read the synopsis and didn't watch the movie.

Will chose to commit suicide because of how his disability was affecting HIM, NOT the other people around him. Money isn't going to give him his old life back, and Louisa can't take all the pain that he faces everyday away from him, either.

Y'all seriously need to realize that looks and money aren't everything.