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The Last Place on Earth (2002)
"Beautiful, like an old paperback romance novel"
I found this to be a wonderfully sweet, romantic, yet somewhat sad movie. It was a movie about life and death; perhaps a tad unrealistic to some who may be a bit cynical, but if you have any depth or romance in your soul at all, then you would really enjoy this movie.
Yes, they met and fell in love rather quickly, but that can happen when going through what they were at the time, and also there is always just that chemistry factor that needs to be looked at. I felt that they complimented each other to a tee. Opposites attract and she was so full of life and spirit mentally, physically, and lovingly, whereas, he was more stuffy and quiet and kept to himself; emotions hidden deep within; afraid to identify with them or show them.
My parents met, fell in love, and married very quickly also, and like the couple in the movie, "The Last Place On Earth", they were complete opposites that brought out the best in each other. They were happily married for a little over 26 years until cancer ravaged my father, and my mother, along with us, their three children, watched him die. My mom stayed by my dad's side the entire time without even leaving the hospital room until I made her get something to eat. We were in the waiting room on the cancer floor when dad passed away finally (with my little brother by his side) and it's our feeling that he waited for mom to leave the room because he had told her that he didn't want her in the room when he took his last breath. That was back on New Year's Day of 1989. Then on December 11, 2001, after a very long illness with cancer, my two brother's and I lost mom (my best friend), and my little brother and I were there with her for her last breath.
I suppose my point in writing about all of that, was to say that fast and true love can and does happen to the very lucky. And though he lost her in the end, in the short amount of time that they had together, she showed him so very much; how to live and enjoy life with all its natural glory, and how to let her go when it was her time. And he in turn, showed her all the love he'd had kept inside himself for his entire life.
Some may focus on the fact that the inter-racial issue wasn't really brought up in the film, but that's simply because love surpasses all ... it has no binds or restrictions. The movie's point was to show growth and understanding in life and death, not to dwell on the fact that one may be white and the other black. When true love is involved the color of one's skin does not come into play; not when there are so many other colors that the world has to offer, if we only open our eyes and minds to see it.
Dreams can and do come true, just not always in the manner in which we had hoped.