P.S.: I love you

The last time I watched a movie in the cinema it was a disappointment. Disappointment, but not due to the bad quality of the film or the boring script but I had expected something else because of its title. The movie I wrote about is P.S.: I love you.

So I hadn’t searched for the review of the film I had just been waiting for something romantic comedy but it was a drama. The second scene made me realize it. One of the two leading characters, Gerry, died in tumour. It was the main woman character’s, Holly, husband. I was taken aback. It took shape that the movie would be about to show us what happen to a widow after her beloved husband’s death and how she behaves how she can survive it.

First the film applied the well-known situation when one, who lost some close person, uses her/his personal stuffs. Holly literally put on her dead husband clothes, suits and always stays at home singing songs they both knew before. Then the family arrives and tries to point out the meaning of life to save Holly from the loneliness (and the mess in her flat). Later this scene is followed by the unique feature of the film, the dead’s letters. Gerry had prepared everything before his death so his wife received letters from him three weeks after his passing away. Gerry’s last sentences suggest things to do in order to help Holly to go on. E.g. Holly should go to karaoke bar with her friends or get rid of Gerry’s objects. These letters show Holly the right way how to carry on her life without Gerry and how to discover herself again.

In connection with the movie two questions came to my mind: is it the same situation with love if your love died or if your love deserted you? Because both mean that you lost an important person’s love and the chance to be around you. The other question is that wasn’t it cruel and morbid to Holly to get letters from her dead sweetheart?
I’m still seeking the answers.