‘P .S. I love you’ is a dramatic comedy that talks about the difficulty of getting over a love story that has ended. The movie is sad at moments, a tear or two will pearl on your cheek but the movie is funny too. Romantic certainly, sometimes predictable, other times really sweet and tender. The movie is nice but is not an unforgettable one. However if you want something romantic it is worth seeing it.
In the movie the loss is due to death but at one point the characters discuss of a situation when love ends because the other leaves. One is not easier than the other, because when you really loved someone, then when it ends, no miracle it hurts. When death separates you, you are destroyed because it is unfair. When the other leaves you, it is because of you… it is ‘always’ because of you. That does not mean you are a bad person but in a way it is because of you and your ego suffers a lot. That’s why the challenge is different. Not only love vanishes but you need to rebuild yourself and it can take time because you have to regain self confidence. Again you are not a bad person because someone left you, may be the other is a stupid person, a mean person, a person that only used you… sometime it is just a big misunderstanding but the pain is there.
In this case, because death takes away the loved one you feel that the world is unfair, you think you are punished and do not know why. This is a movie, so you might think the way Gerry wants to help his girl friend is too artificial but this is unimportant, what matters is the process, how you rebuild yourself, how you heal, how and why you move on.
Of course in the end the only cure is to fall in love again, but that can take time, you need to be lucky… some of us do fall in love easily, others not (I have said ‘I love you’ only once in my life, I do not regret saying it to that one person but I always promised to myself that when I would say that three words I would marry the person and I am sad it will not be the case anymore. When I am in a relationship, I need three to six months to realise if I love someone, if not I move on… But I do not want to misuse these three words. They are often said too lightly by men that only want to bring you in their bed).
When love ends, what matters is to tame your sorrow and enjoy life in its other beautiful aspects. Love is the greatest experience on our little planet but lack of it should not impede you to live happily and enjoy life. Note that love and sex are two different things, when they are combined it is heaven on earth, but if you do not have love, do not give up on sex, it is vital and healthy. The difficulty is to find a good sex partner. I stop here because this subject is too long to explore in few lines.
In a nutshell, this is a nice dramatic comedy, some really great lines, some stupid ones too but all in all worth it. Yes most of us want to be the Gerry of someone but life does not stop if we are not. Certainly more a girls' movie than a boys' one, but I enjoyed it.
