Welcome to Magic Monday, the day
of Romance on Keira’s Corner. Today I would like to talk about the movie, “The
Vow” Starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. This was not only a great movie. But it also a
true story of love, loss and love again.
Background
The Vow is based on the actual
relationship of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who wrote a book about their
marriage, also known as The Vow. Ten weeks after their wedding on 18 September
1993, the couple was in an automobile accident in which Krickitt suffered brain
trauma, which erased memories of her romance with Kim as well as their recent
marriage. Kim, however, was still madly in love with his wife, although she
viewed him as a stranger after the accident. According to the couple, their
faith in Jesus and their wedding vows before God kept them together.
Plot of the “The Vow”
Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and
her husband Leo (Channing Tatum) come out of a movie theater. On their way
home, at a stop sign, Paige unbuckles her seatbelt to lean over and kiss Leo.
At that very moment, a truck rams their car from behind and Paige crashes
through the windshield. Both of them are rushed to the emergency room, and as
Leo, in a voice-over talks about how "moments of impact help in finding
who we are" the movie cuts to how Paige and Leo first met. The scenes of
how they courted, proposed and married are interwoven with the present.
When Paige regains consciousness,
she thinks Leo is her doctor, having lost all memories of the past few years.
When her parents, Bill and Rita Thornton, learn about this and visit her, it is
the first time that Leo meets them. Paige does not understand why she left law
school, broke her engagement with her previous fiancé, Jeremy, and why she has
not been in touch with her family and friends. Her parents insist on taking her
home with them and Paige agrees, assuming she might have married Leo for some
mutual benefit and seeks evidence for the marriage. Just as she's about to leave,
Leo comes running to play her a voice message in which she sounds very happy
and romantic. Paige decides to go back with Leo, hoping it will help her regain
her lost memory. Paige is welcomed home with a surprise party by her friends,
but as she is not able to remember any of them, she finds it overwhelming and
bursts out in anger.
The next day Paige ventures out to
her regular cafe but does not remember having been there and loses her way
back. She calls her mother because she does not know or remember Leo's number.
That evening Leo and Paige are invited for dinner by her parents. At the dinner
and in the bar later, Leo does not fit in with her family and friends. He
persists in his attempts to help her regain her memory, but Paige is more
driven to learning why she left law school and broke her engagement to Jeremy.
During the course of one encounter with Jeremy, she kisses him. Her doctor
advises her to fill the holes in her memory rather than be afraid of her past.
With her sister Gwen's wedding approaching, Paige decides to stay with her
parents until the wedding. Though Leo asks her out on a date and spends a night
with her, the relationship is further strained when Paige's dad tries to
persuade Leo to divorce his daughter, and by Leo punching Jeremy for talking
about chances to bed his wife.
Paige rejoins law school and Leo
signs divorce papers. At a store, she meets an old friend who, unaware of her
amnesia, apologizes for having had a relationship with Paige's dad, thus
alerting Paige as to why she had left her family. When she confronts her mother
about this, Rita tells her that she decided to stay with Bill for all the
things he had done right instead of leaving him for one wrong act. Paige then
asks Leo why he never told her, and he replies he wanted to earn her love
instead of driving her away from her parents. Paige, while in class, starts
sketching; thus depicting how she first left law school. She continues her
interest in art, eventually returning to sculpting and drawing. Though Jeremy confesses
he broke up with his present girlfriend, hoping to be back with her, she turns
him down stating she needs to know what life would be without him.
As seasons change, Leo, in a
voiceover, talks about "moments of impact and ripple effects where some
particles are brought closer and some are spun off into great adventures".
Back in her room, Paige finds the menu card on which she had written her
wedding vows and is deeply moved. The movie ends with Paige waiting for Leo at
their regular Cafe Mnemonic and going with him to try a new place instead of
their regular alternative.
The Book
Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter
knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993, two months after
their marriage, when their Ford Escort was hit from behind by a fast-moving
truck. A massive head injury left Krickitt in a coma for weeks. When she
finally emerged from the coma, she recognized her parents and everyone else-but
she didn't know Kim. She had no idea who he was. The "Krickitt" Kim
had married essentially died in the accident. The Vow is the true tale of the
reconstruction of two lives and a marriage after an event so shattering that
most others would have parted ways long ago. Though it was not easy, and it
tested every fiber of who they were, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over
again.
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