Me before you

"Me before you". This is the kind of film that one already knows from the title to which situation he will face but sometimes, only rarely, it happens, especially in this "art" business, that life gives surprises. Of course it is still a love story, but from the beginning, and from the construction of the characters, is that this issue is separated from the rest that preceded it, mainly those who were punishing us in recent years. Read all the sultry teen / young love movies, adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels. The story centers on a young woman in her twenties, Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke), who lives with her family in a small town in the middle of the English countryside. She works in a food store, she is kind, always smiling, she has a boyfriend and a life absolutely, but only in appearance, full. Without a clear, real project in her life, without determined desires, her appearance from her own wardrobe presents her as childish rather than challenging or creative. However, globalization reached the English countryside and its place of work disappears. She knows that in her home her pecuniary income is needed, her father was the first victim, not the only one, of the economic situation. She is determined to work on what needs to be done. Everything changes when she is selected for a job she is not ready for. She becomes the manager and companion of Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a member of the most wealthy family in the area, who due to a traffic accident was quadriplegic. Before, a young promise, athlete, intellectual, successful financier, loved by all; Now, converted from his technological wheelchair to the latest model, in a monument of misanthropy. The meeting between the two opens the door to where the story will go. All this in the first 10 minutes, put 15 ... They are not alone in the castle where Will lives, the help comes in the format of a physiotherapist, under the gaze of Camila (Janet McTeer) and Stephen (Charles Dance), Will's parents. Camila, who does not resign herself to the situation and tries hard to protect her son, without realizing that he is already an adult, in disgrace, but with the intellect intact. For his part Stephen, appears to be colder, his daily tasks allow him to put a little more distance on the situation. Presented the conflict, one assumes, from the predictability, everything that is going to happen. This adaptation of the homonymous novel by Jojo Moyes, also responsible for writing the screenplay, and directed by debutant Thea Sharrock, recognized in her country as a theater director, has the benefit of having good performances in sustaining the development of the history. Of classic narrative structure, with a dramatic progression of the same order, but with a touch of comedy that feels good, even the delicate circulation by a very subtle black humor is welcome. The design of art is conspicuous by its absence, as if the only space where everything develops reached, wasting elements of visual scenographic order that would have given another value to the text, which they are, but are not used. Situation that is repeated with the direction of photography, with the landscapes that are, but untapped, barely enhanced at some point by the musical selection that works most of the time in an empathic way to the image, but reaches its highest point when plays in a contrapuntal way. Only the delineation of the costumes is at the height of the circumstances, mainly in the one of our heroine, because their clothes give account of their character all the time. The biggest surprise is that, when the conflict begins ...