Love Me If You Dare

This is one of few movies that makes me cry, though I've only seen it twice so far. It's just because I relate to it so freaking much. It shows the best of the good times and the worst of the bad times, and how two people stayed with each other regardless and ended up happy together after 11 years of separation and misfortune. I don't know if just anybody could relate, or if the movie would be as significant or even entertaining if you couldn't.

They stayed together by perpetuating a childhood game of dares they devised, but alas it was the game that drove them apart when the dares turned to "we wont see each other for ten years". They couldn't help but cling to the game, unsure of whether or not to break the rules and seek out each other prematurely. So they each waited the ten years with internal agony, and when the time came, they were insanely elated to see each other again. All they could do was laugh. But then the movie neared its climax as, as a joke, the boy was forced to flee the police for no good reason. He outruns and escapes them in his car on the highway, eventually crashing into a truck and going to the hospital with just a slight cut on his forehead. The girl, who he had just a few minutes to see, before fleeing the cops, is called there and nonchalantly tricked to believing the boy is so brutally mangled, with his face not even recognizable. She sees this impostor and is overcome with grief. On the car ride back home, she somehow realizes it couldn't have been him. Simultaneously, the boy realizes he has played a mean trick, and runs outside into the rain to see if she is there. She returns to the hospital, and finds him standing in the rain. They are truly overjoyed. They are so grateful at having another chance with each other, having abused each other so much. They embrace and cannot be pulled apart by their respective spouses who watch in an emotionally disturbed and confused manner. Eventually the girl's husband punches the boy right in the face. He falls to the ground, rendered unconscious. The girl pleads for him to wake. And eventually he does. For a third time, they are overjoyed. To make sure nothing ever drives them apart again, they submerge themselves together, embraced, in cement.The movie then flashes to a sort of alternate ending in which the two have grown old together and are still happy. Both ways, they die with love, the second more risky, for fear of being separated by unforeseeable forces, so they go with the first, dead in cement in their late thirties.

The part that really got to me was the embrace in the rain. It was the happiest part of the movie. They were finally reunited. Fortunate and grateful and with strong mutual feelings. That is something worth crying about not having.

(You can watch it here, but you're probably better of renting it or borrowing it.)