The Lucky One

The Lucky One

Introduction

Full of warm romance and remarkable suspense, movie The Lucky One is based on Nicholas Spark's novel. It is about how life can take a surprising path and how fate guides us towards a true and eternal love. It forces us to think about the existence of luck and activities of lucky charms. Inspired from the movie, crossed fingers, a symbol of luck is illustrated (see appendices, image# 1). And afterwards fonts of two Arabic alphabets are discussed with reference to that symbol of luck.

Discussion

Movie Analysis

“The Lucky One” tells an unforgettable story of a U.S marine who have visited Iraq three times to fulfill his duty being a soldier. During his third visit he found out a photograph of a woman filled with dirt and written text of “keep safe”. Initially he did not give a thought about the picture and try to find out its owner. On failing he kept it in his pocket and later found out that his luck has started working in a more positive way. He started winning poker games unusually and even survived a dangerous combats in which two of his buddies lost their lives. Later his friend came up with an assumption that it is because of the photograph that his fate has started working constructively. Even he escaped a bomb blast when he moved from his place to pick up the photograph.

On his return to U.S., the Marine Logan Thibault, search out for the woman in photograph and ended up in a small town of North Carolina, Hampton. There the women named Beth used to run a dog kennel and was a divorced single mother. Logan, finding it difficult to tell the truth, started working at her kennel. Without discovering the truth, both of them fell in love with each other gradually. With growing intensity of their relationship, Logan, was afraid to tell her the truth and was trying to find out a way to let her know.

The primary flaw of the movie is its improper basis. The novel on which it is based and even the trailer portrays that the search of Logan for Beth will be intense and full of efforts but in the real movie, Logan just returned from Iraq, just travel from Colorado to Louisiana and did not took even ten minutes to find her out and ended up on her door steps immediately. This scenario not only make the movie a flawed one but also makes it a fast paced and unimpressive which just floats over the surface and viewers do not let it sink.

There are some positive aspects of the film, however. For one, the landscapes of the film are shot beautifully, in vibrant, autumnal colors. Blythe Danner's acting is also fantastic, playing Beth's astute grandmother, Ellie; she steals every scene she appears in. Efron, on the other hand, is disappointingly uninspiring as the love-struck marine; his character maintains the same emotionless expression throughout the course of the ...