The Vow

I vow to help you love life,

to always hold you with tenderness

and to have the patience that love demands,

to speak when words are needed

and to share the silence when they are not

and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.

I vow to love you,

and no matter what challenges might carry us apart,

we will always find a way back to each other.

I promise to never forget this is a once in a lifetime love.

I had been dying to see this movie ever since I saw the trailer for the first time. When it came out around Valentine's Day we decided not go yet and wait the three or four months until it played in the "cheap" theatre, that was until yesterday afternoon anyway. We spent most of Saturday studying for school. Around four we both thought a movie sounded really good but after looking at what was playing at our cheap theatre, it didn't sound so good after all. Then Nic remembered over Thanksgiving break - we went to see Breaking Dawn with our moms and happened to go around four in the afternoon when they were having an unexpected promotion. Turns out it shouldn't have been so unexpected since the promotion is an every day deal - between 4:00 - 5:30 tickets are only $5 per person. Randomly remembering this we figured out it would only be four more dollars to go to the  nice, quiet, fancy theatre to see a matinee movie. Twenty minutes later we found ourselves rocking in those amazing plush chairs a few rows from the top.  

I've heard so many mixed reviews about this movie,since it came out that I began to feel disappointed even before seeing it myself. Most people's biggest complaint being that McAdams didn't have as much chemistry with Tatum as she did with Gosling. This had me a little worried because naturally I consider The Notebook to be the greatest love story of all time but seriously, who would NOT have chemistry with Channing Tatum.

Don't tell my husband I said that ;) HA

   

Well I'm here to tell you that this complaint was far from the case for me. After the credits began to roll across the screen all I wanted to do was sit there until it started again! I had never seen love portrayed in a more realistic light than I did during this movie. Their love for each other was real, their lifestyles very realistic, and even more than that, there wasn't any magic element that made every problem suddenly all better. In the movie, a young couple gets in a car accident and the wife wakes up not remembering who her husband is. She lost all of the memories they ever shared together. The realistic part about it was that after a car accident, memory doesn't just come back in a few days. In fact, sometime it never comes back and it didn't for her either. But it didn't matter because the trials that she went through didn't change who she truly was. She was still the same girl, with the same heart, that had the same passions in life. Her husband, while she couldn't remember him, wasn't just a part of her memory but was a part of who she was. I balled through the whole thing. To me it portrayed the most beautiful part of love. That no matter what happens, it will be the joy you find within yourself that will lead you back together, for that joy that makes you who you are, is the very same reason you fell in love the first time, and it can be the very same reason you fall in love all over again.