Before We Go (2015) - Life's A Struggle. So Is Love!

★★★★☆

The film opens with an exhilarating piece of music hinting that it’s probably a heart-warming, delightful, optimistic romance story. And yes, it is. I like the tone of it; the phone-back-in-time thing; the ambiguous ending; how it views love and relationship; and the script that manages to stay light and joyful, also a little bit intriguing about what happened and is happening to the pair, though there’s inevitably few moments of sentimentality. This is actually a very good flick for a couple to check out on coming Christmas!

I guess everybody’s looking or waiting for their so called perfect better half, but the thing is, like it’s said in the film, ‘there’s no perfect. There will always be struggle. You just need to choose who you gonna struggle with.’ Love’s not filling the void of loneliness or weightlessness or anything you so hate feeling. Love’s about the choices you make, and the responsibilities you have to bear with it. If you can’t take it, or say, aren’t ready for it, you’d better not fall in love, coz you’re gonna only hurt yourself and others in the end. There’re many other things you can try to get fun but in essence love’s not, though it seems to offer you a whole lot of that at first. Life’s a struggle! So is love in fact!

‘Before We Go’ doesn’t sound so silly or sad though we know that it’s almost no way to come across a helpful, smart, charming, good person like Chris Evans’s Nick in reality. There seems nothing serious but it is some sort. It doesn’t try deliberately to look romantic but it feels so! It’s right about many things like there’s always a reason for you to be in some place to meet someone! Maybe it’s just something to do with my belief that there should be no lack of a good soul to help when you’re really in need; that karma after all hosts a very fair game!