P.S. I Love You
Netflix | Amazon
Overall Rating: 8/10
Meets Expectations: +0
Apparent Rating: 8/10
It’s hard to evaluate a fairly sad movie for how enjoyable it was. Going into P.S. I Love You, I knew it was going to be a sad movie. I put off watching it for several days because I just didn’t want to be saddened over something fictional.
The story as portrayed, though about a young widow, was a lot less sad than I expected. It was much more about her moving on and how she learns to deal with things after everything is all different now.
I really enjoyed the emotional range and real interactions between the characters. There was one point where the main character is asked if she’s hiding from her friends because she can’t bear that they’re all moving on and being happy when she can’t. I thought that was really realistic.
It was a New York movie. I think people who don’t have jobs, who don’t like their tiny expensive apartments, should live somewhere else. But instead they treat NYC like it’s Earth-the-planet, that no where else fit for human habitation has been discovered.
The main character obsesses about designer shoes. I can’t imagine wearing shoes like that on purpose. They look painful. Whenever I see women in the media who are wearing shoes like that, I immediately think they’re stupid and useless and self-destructive. It’s my own prejudice and I admit it. But then again, it might have been character exposition since the main character was insensitive and bitchy and inconsiderate and selfish and hateful to her beloved husband and then he died. So maybe she loves designer shoes because she’s just really not that nice of a person.
None of this is explaining why I liked the movie, which I really did. The flashback story elements were well integrated. They did a great job showing the depth of the love between these people. It showed how things were so weird with their in-laws on both sides. It was really amazing and because it was seamlessly done, it made the whole movie seem integrated.
I also liked how the “new love interest” thing isn’t the center of the story.
This was a movie about grief and it did a phenomenal job of showing that to us without being painful to watch.
