Today, Life Is Not Enough!

School Truth & Transformation / Film "Me Before You" directed by Thea Sharrock

If you want to see a fun, romantic drama that will challenge your beliefs and make you re-think what's the meaning of life, this movie will press some buttons to take you there.

"Lou" Clark (the protagonist) urgently needs a job to help her family survive the difficult financial season they are going through. She accepts work as a permanent caretaker of Will Traynor, a smart and wealthy young man who was left in a wheelchair due to an accident two years earlier, and whose entire world changed radically in the blink of an eye. He was not the happy and adventurous soul that existed before but was having a really hard time to live the everyday life. He was constantly in a bad mood, with a sarcastic and bitter attitude, just giving some time to his parents to process the decision of ending his life in a few with through suicide assistance. 

With lots of difficulties, Lou manages to break down the walls that Will had put in this season to protect himself because of his emotional and physical pain. She achieves to touch his heart with her tenderness and ridiculous spontaneity. She is able to make him realize that life can fun and is worth it. In some way, they manage to connect and see themselves reflected in each other and live an intense and brief love relationship.

The sad thing is that despite this, Will does not change his mind. His current health condition simply shuts him down. The shadow of his past is impossible to forget. He does not want to be this new person in this unwanted condition. He won't depend on others and be a burden for Lou and his family. He decides to continue with his plans to end his life.

The worldview that this movie proposes is completely humanistic (human-centered). Life is all about fulfilling ourselves, knowing who we are,  extending our limits, reaching our goals, in the best shape possible. Because life won't make sense if we depend on others to accomplish our dreams. Exactly the opposite to a Christian worldview, where the center is God, and our purpose is about knowing who He is and makes him known. One of the core values of the Christian worldviews is that we depend on one another and each one plays a fundamental role in the big picture. Our circumstances are an invitation to the unknown kindness of God.

What impacted me watching this movie, is the power that this message has: That today we have the freedom to choose if we want to live or not. That it's respectful to want to put life to an end if we decide that is best. This movie establishes (in an indirect way) that life is meant to live it with certain standards, circumstances that we can control. If we can avoid suffering, is much better.

My conclusion is that I believe this film prepares the ground for euthanasia. Puts seeds that seem inoffensive, but that in a smart and indirect way, what is truly doing, is expanding our limits, making the unacceptable acceptable in our unconscious first. 

In a postmodern era, what we think and feel have swept our reasoning and the core values of the true meaning of human life.

I recommend "Me Before You" directed by Thea Sharrock, a novel from the english writer Jojo Moyes. I would encourage you to speak out and share your thoughts & beliefs after you've seen it.