Love, Rosie Movie
Love, Rosie, 2014
Based on Cecelia Ahern’s best-selling novel, Where Rainbows End, the Love, Rosie movie follows Rosie (Lily Collins) and Alex (Sam Claflin) who have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn’t possibly be right for one another... or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies.
Love, Rosie is a 2014 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Christian Ditter from a screenplay by Juliette Towhidi. The film stars Lily Collins and Sam Claflin, with Christian Cooke, Tamsin Egerton, Suki Waterhouse, Jamie Beamish, and Jaime Winstone in supporting roles.
Sam Claflin (June 27, 1986) is is an English actor known for portraying Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series (2013–2015), Will Traynor in Me Before You (2016), and Oswald Mosley in the Peaky Blinders television series.
Lily Collins (March 18, 1989) is an English-American actress, model, and writer.
The plot of the movie is quite simple and rather straight-forward. From the age of 5, Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been best friends. And as they take on life they just end up getting separated time and time again. When it comes to love it’s just everyone else but each other... And so, the main question is when will the two finally realize they are meant to be together?
Not going to lie, the story is very cliche (although it does articulate the pitfalls of platonic friendship between men and women in a very light-hearted fashion). But it was still a pleasant experience to watch it on the big screen.
The movie was visually vibrant. And had a very English feel to it. I felt like many people were too critical of Love, Rosie. It was not perfect by any means. My biggest complaint had to be the clunky dialogues. But the overall feeling that the movie evoked in me made it up for the shortcomings. The acting was the strongest side, I believe. As appealingly humanized by Lily Collins and Sam Claflin, Rosie and Alex were sufficiently flawed but appeared three-dimensional and convincingly lovable and relatable. Required to carry the characters from their late teens to their early thirties, both actors deftly pull off that tricky transition, aided by springy (sometimes too premature) editing.
Many critics said that Love, Rosie was one of those pointless films that wouldn’t have existed if only the main characters talked to each other. Now, I understand the argument but I feel like miscommunication (or complete absence of such) is one of the most common reasons behind people’s failure in life. It’s ridiculously stupid but raw and real nonetheless…
So just in general, I really enjoyed the movie and highly recommend it to anybody looking to have a good laugh while shedding a tear or two.
This beautiful fan-made MV is everything: