“Everyone has dreams but
only a few realizes them.” - Dr. Blake
The movie revolves around the life of Veronika Deklava and how her
view of life changed when she attempted to commit suicide. When the sense of
repetitiveness in her lifestyle made her feel dissatisfied and that her
everyday routine seemed to kill her willingness to live, she decided to take the
matters into her own hands by taking in several pieces of pills one by one.
However, her attempt to end her life wasn't successful as she wanted it to be.
She woke up in Vilette, a mental hospital in New York where she found out that
she damaged her heart and that she only had weeks to live. With permission from her parents, she was
advised to stay in the facility until that day came. Backed up with her
desperation and persistence to put a period into her existence, she tried once
again by sneaking into a room where a cabinet filled with bottles of pills were.
She was caught though before she even swallowed the pills.
During her stay in
the hospital, she met Edward, the reason why she wanted to make the most of her
remaining days before she dies. Little did she know, Dr. Blake, who was trying
to change her view of her own life had a secret that he kept from Veronika. Dr.
Blake did plan to unravel this secret to her but Veronika already had a plan of
her own. She and Edward ran away from the place they thought were keeping them
from living the kind of life they preferred to live, the kind of life that was
preventing them from making the most of every moment they got. They spent every
second of the time together and based on the passed scenes of the movie, I've never seen them that much happy. Then Veronika’s time to bid goodbye was about
to come. They were sitting on the bench of a platform near the beach on a cold breezy
evening. Isn't it awful to find a person that makes you happy and know exactly
what day you will lose that person? And the most heart-breaking part is you are
only hours away from having to let go. Anyway, I want to tell you what happened
at the end of the movie and the secret that Dr. Blake wanted to tell Veronika
but some of you might not have watched the movie yet and so I will leave the
story from where I finished.
The message that I got from this movie was what Dr. Blake said
about “Awareness of Life”. Veronika found no reason to live and that the habit of
history repeating itself managed to drain her energy to live another day. She
looked at everything that she had and the people that surrounded her insignificant.
She never found contentment and happiness despite having everything that a lot of women long to have. She had to go through such a painful wait just to be aware of
how wonderful life can be if she decides to make it wonderful. The movie taught
me that our life doesn't have its own mind. It doesn't create its own
situations. The life that we have depends on how we shape it through the decisions
we make, the actions we take and the way we view our life as a whole. I looked
at Veronika’s life as a perfect life because she had almost everything but the
way she viewed it made everything looked so dull and negative. Did she ever
have a dream of travelling the world? Or having a family? Put up a business maybe?
She seemed to have kept herself inside the box and never really dreamed big. She
already had a picture of her future drawn in her mind but that picture she drew
was all sad and depressing. She already assumed that her marriage would never
work out and everything else would start to fall apart one by one. With that,
the movie also taught me to look at bigger possibilities in life and never
constraint myself with the boundaries the society dictates. The movie made me
believe more that my future is molded by the decisions I make today, the way I
look at my life and the actions I take every day.
I don’t really see any creative technique from the movie other
than the way the message was conveyed. The message wasn’t given directly in the
movie and you would really think what the movie was trying to say. Because of
that, people can actually interpret their own understanding of the movie’s
message. Furthermore, the message was sent in the right part of the movie and
it did cause a lot of excitement for me. The message that the movie communicated did inspire me a lot and reminded me of how I should live my life. I
think most of the people who already watched the movie did get the same message
that I got. Veronika’s initial attitude towards life showed what most of us
look at our lives. Sometimes, we assume of what our future brings based on the
life that we are living now and we tend to lose the confidence that we can
change what our mind thinks of our future.
In a nutshell, I really do like the
movie as much as I like the book. The actors they selected fit very well with the characters they played. The actors did a really good job in making the characters of the book alive and they did send every emotion they needed to depict in every situation successfully. Some people might find this movie boring but for those who are into inspirational movies then they will surely like the way the book of Paulo Coelho was interpreted in a movie. Despite some changes made like the setting of the story and the occupation of Veronika, it didn't change the essence of the book. For me, the most important thing in turning this kind of book into a movie is retaining the message that the book is trying to relay. I believe that the movie was made in order to
simply inspire us and remind us to live life to the fullest.
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