Lou at the end of the movie..Shocking..

sheesh! i think she cried plenty before that and we saw her pain. There had to be some hope after his death and some memories left over of the good times and the impression he left with her.

It was poor writing, poor writing in the book and the screeenplay followed that.
Really, it would have made sense to see Lou in Paris some months after Switzerland, but not like 2-3 weeks after Will's death. I totally get the fact that you must end the novel and the film on a "good" note somehow, but to make events take place at an appropriate time it's crucial.

Will wrote the letter expecting Lou to be in Paris in september, Moyes should have shown Lou in Paris ( in the book and the screeplay ) in the middle of the winter...like...ehm... "Will, sorry, I'm late, but what did you expect me do do 3 week after you death??"

Also... don't know if any of the book readers noticed but in the book it is said that Will tried to commit suicide in december, and then in the chaper "Camilla" it says it was 22 january. This is poor writing, again. How get you overlook something like this? It's "only" the suicide attempt of the main character!

I loved this book, but it has its flaws, let's say that I love it despite the flaws.

"Please, if you are trying to convert me, this isn't a good time"

If you need insult a person to give your opinion ,you need a good lesson of manners,the fact you insult someone is enough reason to lose the respect for you and your opinions and ignore you.Anyway I am gonna answer.

It is not react different,"wise guy", in many scenes she should have acted much more emotional,considering the facts and she was supposedly in love with him..All the people who watched the ending were crying,specially the part of the letter, and Lou was almost smiling and she looked ok, dont tell me that was normal..even tough she had had time to say goodbye and she cried later, in that specific scene the most normal thing was she had looked a bit more sad.

I am not saying she had to be crying like a baby, but I found Emilia's acting a bit bad..I felt a lack of more emotion in some parts..
I just say if people were crying with that scene,Lou should have been shown looking much more emotional because whether you react better or worse,there are moments where you only can feel pain and look devastated..
Even in the book,I could see Lou feeling sad and looking bad.

And that is my opinion and others',so please respect it and keep the mean words for you or leave the board if you can't show a bit of respect..

By the way, did I forget to mention you have been reported? Have a good day.

I lost my mom this past November and two days or so after her funeral I went with some friends to a museum and we had a good time. When my grandmother died and I was a child, my cousins, friend and me watched a video and was laughing at it in my room while the adults were downstairs. Smiling and laughing after a person dies doesn't mean you are being disrespectful or that you aren't still hurting. You're just trying to cope and move on with your life the way they would want you to. I've cried for my mom since then and I have cried over my grandmother years after she died. Sometimes keeping yourself occupied and trying to be happy is the only way you can keep from going insane after losing someone you cared about. It's not like Lou was out flirting with guys. She went to a place where Will told her to go and she respectfully did what he told her to do.

She grieved. She moved on. I have buried a child, I cried for months after, I grieved. I sometimes take out the little outfit my stillborn son would have worn back from the hospital, I don't dissolve into tears, it comforts me, in some way I feel close to him and it makes me feel a bit better. Perhaps that is what she felt.

by marisanz » Wed Jul 27 2016 13:10:17

When Lou is in Paris and she goes to the perfume shop to buy the perfume Will recommended for her,she was SMILING...I was like,seriously?
I get she felt a bit thrilled seeing the perfume he thought for her, but he had just died, she was at the french restaurant, the one Will visited and she was alone, so she had reasons to be crying instead of looking so relaxed.

That was the place Will visited but he was not there so I would have felt bad and depressive.However she acted like if Will was waiting for her in some place near there..I found the ending totally ridicolous..

OP, I wonder if this has to do anything with the fact that NOT ALL PEOPLE ARE THE SAME? You also post on IMDb boards; I don't Lou does that. Should she start doing that, since YOU are doing that? It seems you want the world to behave like you. Bit of an ego problem there?

Just because someone does not react the way we expect them to does not mean they're in any less pain or sadness. To me, her smile represented a little peace in knowing he is happier and that he still thought of her long after leaving. I don't think it means she's no longer sad and I don't think it means she never suffered. Hell, we all could be entirely wrong. But ultimately, the letter and perfume seemed to have given her a little comfort amidst all the pain that I'm sure she had to endure; of which we obviously didn't see.

In the book, her reaction in the ending scene in Switzerland was a little different; she cried a whole lot more than what we saw. But it's already depressing enough, what would having her sobbing in the film really do? Not much to me..I was already bawling my eyes out.