Me before You versus The Fault In Our Stars

 

This review is about two movies, Me Before You and The Fault In Our Stars, let´s compares!

 

Me Before You

The life of Louisa Clark, a happy and crazy girl who is working 2 jobs to help her family survive. Her life changes completely when she begins to work as a caregiver for a young millionaire, who was paralyzed after an accident. Little by little, she establishes an increasingly intimate connection between them.

Me Before You brings together two people who couldn't have less in common in a poignantly romantic novel with one question: What would you decide when making the person you love happy means also breaking your heart?

It is one of the most emotional movies I have seen for my taste, Louisa is a simple young woman, while William is a millionaire who no longer wants to live being a burden to others. At the end of the movie, William decides to travel to a country where euthanasia is allowed and leave part of his fortune to Louise so that she can start a new life and above all, that she would be happy.

 

The Fault In Our Stars

The Fault In Our Stars is a story about love and death, narrated in a dramatic and humorous way, in which cancer appears as the main character to warn about the importance of valuing life and enjoying the present.

Hazel is sixteen years old; she has been sick with cancer since she was little and survives thanks to a small medical miracle and the oxygen cylinder that accompanies her all the time. One day, Hazel meets Gus, who has already overcome the disease.

Young people hold different meetings in which they share their tastes and hobbies. They also challenge each other to read their respective favorite books. Hazel shares with Gus a work entitled "An Imperial Pain" by a writer named Van Houten, for which the young woman feels a great admiration, Gus decides to take her to meet the writer, but during the trip he confesses to Hazel that his cancer has returned and is in terminal phase.

Both movies are romantic, full of touching and very sad scenes.

In my opinion, Me Before You is much more emotional than The fault in our stars, because in the end the protagonist, William, decides to give up on life, leaving with the satisfaction that his beloved Louise has a better life.

If I could change the ending of any of these movies, it would be Me Before You, I would choose William to stay with Louise until the end, sparing his parents and Louise her pain.