The Paw Print

Movie Review
by Kayla Duff

Not many people know the true meaning of a few common, but important things – they don’t truly understand what life is about, and too few people (kids and teens especially) never really know what love is. Only those who do know about love have ever had their heart truly broken. I’m not talking about just being sad, or hurt or angry at someone. A real broken heart is when you are so hollow and sad that you cannot find meaning in life. For Veronica Miller, all these things become real in the new love story, The Last Song.

WARNING - THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!

The Last Song is based on the book by Nicholas Sparks and is the heart of all modern love stories. Veronica (Ronnie) Miller has her life shattered when her parents divorce and her father decides to move from New York City to Tybee Island, Georgia. She hates him with all her heart for “abandoning” her mother, her brother and herself.

She is shipped out to Georgia for the summer after three years of not having any contact with her father since he left. She doesn’t pay any attention to her father and hangs out by herself, not listening to his concerns for her and her brother.

Then she meets Will, the ultimate guy of her dreams, when he spills a milkshake all over her. It isn’t exactly love at first sight – but she grows to love him.

During her stay, she rescues a batch of Sea Turtle eggs, falls in love and learns about a horrible accident with the church that everybody blames on her father. She begins hearing them say that he set the church on fire. He himself thinks he did it, and she can’t convince him otherwise.

She soon forgets about it and goes on with her newly found life. But soon disaster strikes. Ronnie finds her life crumbling to ruins when the first girlfriend she made on Tybee begins to hate her. Her father collapses outside his house and she learns that he has been living with cancer. He is going to die and there is nothing she can do about it.

Ronnie hears Will telling her father that his friend was the one who set the church on fire, and she breaks up with him. Her life is completely falling apart and there is nothing she can do.

The Last Song is a very deep, touching story and I recommend you go see it. Be ready to cry!