Listen To Your Heart

Actually please don't.

I just finished watching this film, and I really can't even begin to put together what exactly happened.  It starts off innocently enough, but none of the reviews (which are scarce) were actually honest.  Either these people have no clue what a good movie is or because of the sensitive content they felt bad about saying anything negative.

***SPOILERS****(please dont read any further if you wish to see this movie...which I highly advise against)


Meet Danny, a sweet out of luck waiter working in the big apple.  He wishes to record his own music, so that other people can use it, not so he can become famous (Really?).  For a movie that spoke so much about the music in the this film and the importance of it in Danny's life, there really wasn't that much of it, nor did we see him dedicating much of his time to it.  And when there was music it was mediocre to simply god awful, so maybe that was a god send.

Most of the film actually focused on the strained relationship between Danny and Arianna (a deaf girl), who's over bearing, bordering psychotic mother comes between them in The Notebook meets Misery like fashion.  First of all their was no explanation for the mother's horrid behavior other than the fact that she was "controlling." Seriously? You don't create a fake email address pretending to be your daughter's boyfriend, so you can send your daughter an email, using said email address, telling her that he has moved on....that is beyond "controlling" in my humble opinion.  I could go on about this mother's behavior but it's hard to put it into words.

And, of course, there's the cancer.  Why wouldn't you suddenly, half way though the fim have you main character suddenly start dying of cancer, that makes SO much sense! At that point we really couldn't make fun of this film any more, which just made it painful to watch.  This film already had a deaf girl who was so hindered by her maniacal mother and her disability that she felt she couldn't make her own choices. PLUS both main characters' parents had died when they were younger.  Danny getting cancer was just ridiculous, not to mention, unnecessary.  It seemed as if the two characters were going to get back together, but after Danny's bffl gets done taking a dump in Danny's bathroom he see's Danny seizing on the living room floor (not kidding). BAM! Cancer!!!

Of course, after his death Arianna is able to find her voice and listen to her heart...just writing that made me nauseated!