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Petite facétie ce soir... La review d'A Walk to Remember, qui a déjà été faite dans ces colonnes (y'a longtemps). Pasque je l'ai revu. Mais vlà : je l'ai revu en VO, d'une part, et c'est toujours bien bien mieux même si je garde toujours un script pas loin pour avoir le moindre détail (c'est les noms propres qui me chient dessus). D'autre part, comme j'en ai parlé à Chiboo (en duplex de Philly)... ben la review est en anglais aussi...

The movie was A Walk to Remember. I mean, it was a great movie. Nononononono : not what they call a great movie... RottenTomatoes has it marked at 4.1 on 10 and imdb at 6.9 on 10. But it's a great movie in the sense that i understand it : merely, it's a movie i enjoy. You see, it's adorable Mandy Moore seducing badboy Shane West in the most... Christian way. Well, that's not the good part :) Everybody understands it as a Christian movie and watched it accordingly, and it's how it was meant to be watched. Maybe it's in tune to American expectations, and maybe even more to Jamaican ones... But here in France, shooting a openly-labeled Christian movie is one of the best way to make a commercial hit... not. Even by me, who's arguably alot more Christian than your average frog, it's quite deterring to put morals in yout movie that are so full of themselves you could spit inside and watch your spit being canonized.

But anyway, it's never been the reason i watched, and enjoyed wholly, this movie. First and foremost, Mandy Moore is soundly, holyly, fantastically, insanely, joyfully and thoroughly cute. Yay, sounds shallow for a reason to like a movie. But then it's not only Mandy Moore being pretty, it's Mandy Moore corresponding precisely in her looks, acting and representation to what i would've expected for her character, and all the people i associate to her character. It's like she transcends the movie to represent a kind of girl you could search a thousand days and fall flat on your face in the end. That's one of the best way i know to say i like her acting.
Then i found the scenes not so well weighed between themselves, but each is well done on its own. The dialogue are alright, with some flashes of wit i particularly like to hear in movie --it's so damn scarce. Some scenes are just plain clever. The characters are not balanced and were not meant to be : it's the story of a couple, and in the couple, of one girl. Many scenes involving friends sound phony or downright inane, but it's okay cause basically they're just outsiders in their own right. Never has the script have the story drift too far from a genuinely fine love story, or have the characters behave freakishly, and never does the director indulge in overdoing. Or at least i felt so, call me stupid.
Finally, and some of a big finally, i liked that soundtrack. Or rather : i liked Switchfoot's bits in the soundtrack, cause Moore's sirupy teen pop just creeps in the underskin of my very existence and screeches messages of mass murder. Her later opus and covers are more to my tastes, i can say i like them, too ; but what to say about Switchfoot's last album, which is kind of my craze nowadays. Now i read today that they are famous as a Christian rock band, and that label is ready to drive me mad. I for myself didn't get any holy call in their music or lyrics to go on to crusade against the sinful and the wicked, and i feel happy about it.

So that's what makes me turn a blind eye to some easiness in the plot and the overall Christmas-fable flavour of the act. It's a romance, come on, it has to be sweet somehow.



more to come...
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