“Can love truly rewrite the past?” is the repeated question that runs through the mind while this film is playing. Although it follows the typical Nicholas Sparks romance film, The Best of Me is a wonderful film that tells the story of two high school lovers who went their separate ways and were reunited after 20 years. This film has many intricate features. However, the best features in this film are the plot, the characters, and the setting with great visuals.
In the spring of 1984, two high school students (Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole) fell deeply in love. They were from opposite sides of the tracks in a small town in Louisiana. Dawson’s scowl father and siblings are morbid roughnecks who abuse Dawson. However, Amanda is from a wealthy
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The movie begins with a huge accident in the middle of nowhere on an oil rig, where Dawson nearly died but survived. Then he realized that there is a purpose for his life which is an example of foreshadowing for what is to come for the unexpected ending. Evidently, it all leads up to the point that these two soulmates were destined to be together. Then the film goes into the death of Tuck, which also displays the notion of “destiny ” because it brings Amanda and Dawson back together after 20 years of being apart. The various plots help the storyline and demonstrate, once again, the notion of destiny.
The characters in The Best of Me were very skilled. Luke Bracey, who plays young Dawson, is from a family of criminals, but longs for a more normal life and likes reading textbooks on top of water towers. Meanwhile, Liana Liberato, who plays young Amanda, is a popular girl who has a wealthy father who has loses of how many cars he owns. She pursues Dawson for his smarts. However, their happiness is threatened by Dawson’s abusive father who is played by Sean
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It made it so much more clear and very easy to understand how Amanda and Dawson got to where they are in the present. Despite all of their present struggles, they still were brought back together. Given that this is a Nicholas Sparks movie, we can guarantee that the scenes and setting will be very romantic and tragic at the same time. The setting of The Best of Me film is set in a small town in Louisiana, which brought some serious distress for the book readers because The Best of Me novel was set in North Carolina. However, those who didn’t read the novel would be fine because it doesn’t make a difference. It still had the same romantic love story that made it very