It is a slow film, sometimes too slow for the 'mainstream' audience, but I was never bored. Having not read the novel from which it is based on, I am sure the film stayed true to the essence and theme of the novel. I have not been this moved by a film in a long time. Brilliant! I expected an 'okay' film after seeing some of the reviews from where it came out, but I honestly loved it. So I finally watched Veronika Decides To Die. Other times secretly pleased they're turning into repeats of me. And I'll live out the rest of my days sometimes wishing my kids could have the life that I never had. This time I'm just going to pretend that I don't know because somehow kicking up a fuss just doesn't seem worth the trouble this time. A few years later he'll have another one. Then about ten years into it he'll have an affair because I'm too busy and I'm too tired. Taking care of kids, holding onto jobs, paying mortgages, It'll keep us on an even keel for a while.
But just as we're getting sick of each other, I'll get pregnant. The first year we'll make love all the time, and in the second and third less and less. And one day some guy will ask me to marry him. I'll go back to work on my new anti-depressants, have dinner with my parents and persuade them I'm back to being the normal one who never gives them any trouble. After you decide that I'm depressed, or whatever, you'll put me on meds, right? Well I know hundreds of people on them and they're all doing just fine. Each day is a gift, let’s not waste it.Veronika: Well, let's see.
We’re all going to die one day it may not be tomorrow, in a week, or in 50 years, but it will happen, and that awareness should motivate us to live exactly the way we want. There’s more to this story but the moral lesson is that it’s the awareness of the finite nature of life that inspires us to follow our dreams, express who we truly are, and ultimately find happiness. This new found sense of freedom helps her discover who she truly is, gives her a happiness she’s never felt, and gives her the will to live. With the thought of impending death, she lives life her own way for the first time, thinking, feeling, saying, and doing everything she wants. She attempts suicide with sleeping pills but wakes up in a mental hospital with the prognosis that due to the drugs, she’ll die within a week. In the story, Veronika is a beautiful young woman who has everything, except the will to live. Just finished reading Paulo Coelho’s “Veronika Decides to Die” which has inspired me to live authentically and cherish each day. The Moral Lesson from Paulo Coehlo’s “Veronika Decides to Die”
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