I might let you go

Marshall 2021-12-27 08:01:56

A beautiful disaster romance film, adapted from real people and real stories. (One of the top ten real disasters in the United States)

The film uses a two-line montage technique to divide the time before the death and after the death into two interspersed narratives (somewhat similar to "memory fragments").

The heroine Tami is a freelancer, her original words are "I do whatever takes me to the next place" (what a cool girl), until I met the hero Richard (me before you, the hero who works in the port) , In this film once again play a disabled person who is taken care of, even though it is imagined...) The two soon fell in love, proposed marriage, and identified each other as their soul mate. During a long voyage, they unfortunately encountered a hurricane. During the turbulence, Richard fell into the sea. After the hurricane, Tami found Richard on the driftwood, but found that his ribs were broken, his lower limbs were paralyzed, and he had lost his ability to take care of himself. , Tami has been taking care of Richard, and when Tami's spirit is about to collapse, Richard's unregrettable love also once again gave Tami the hope of living. However, when Tami woke up from his drowsiness again, the sentence "I might let you go" ushered in a major turning point in the film. It turned out that Richard had already disappeared when he fell into the sea, and all that followed was Tami's fantasy (similar to (In Life of Pie) In the end, it was these fantasies that supported Tami's 41-day drift and rescue. At the end of the film, it is mentioned that Tami’s prototype character has never given up sailing on the sea after being rescued (this is a spiritual pursuit, and it is also fulfilling the agreement between the two)

In general, the plot is similar to the Titanic, with less sensational scenes and more touching details. The use of double lines is also quite simple, and it has not reached the level of brain-burning memory fragments. And the movie reminds me of the song "hurricane", which feels like a good BGM.

Finally, I intercepted the most touching conversation

"I hope you don't know me, then you won't encounter this kind of thing"

"If so, I will have no memories of you. For me, this is the most important thing."

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Extended Reading
  • Sherman 2022-04-20 09:02:06

    3.5 / The shooting attitude of several episodes is too sloppy, and I don’t want to watch the “vegetarian white hippies fall in love in Southeast Asia”. / I have seen many behind-the-scenes + interviews and I am still shocked by the hurricane lens (Shailene received it in the past two years). The drama is so hard (I haven't swimed for a month, so after watching the shipwreck movie, I actually want to buy a boat and go to sea?

  • Noah 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Check it out before the show. Overall two timelines. The heroine has extraordinary courage, willpower and wisdom. Unfortunately, at the age of 24, she encountered a Category 4 hurricane and lost her lover Richard, who was 10 years older than her. I thought that the two of them arrived in Hawaii successfully, but the previous one was just a small hallucination, and I strayed into a big hallucination. In fact, at the beginning of the plot, the heroine asked the hero what the real experience at sea was like, and he said that he had hallucinations on the third day. The next scene is that the heroine wakes up after the hurricane and can't find Richard's despair and helplessness. It is their love that supports her to Hawaii. After seeing the land bird, the heroine fired two sea rescue bombs at the ship, and the ship whistled in her direction, are you ok? Yes, the plot ends here. The heroine arrived at the island of Hawaii after more than 40 days in the sea where there is no air navigation route. The entire environment portrayal and character makeup are well done. The only thing I didn't understand was the execution of the transaction with the old French couple. Such a messy comment, I should tick the ones that are only visible to me.

Adrift quotes

  • Tami Oldham: We're probably dead already.

    Richard Sharp: Exhausted... Dehydrated... Delirius... Yeah. But you're not dead.

  • Tami Oldham: Am I hallucinating? Oh, my God, we're gonna die out here! We're gonna die out here!

    Richard Sharp: We might.

    Tami Oldham: You're not supposed to say that!

    Richard Sharp: You'd rather I lied to you?

    Tami Oldham: Yes, please lie to me. Just tell me it's gonna be okay.