Guest Blogger: Maranda 2

Dear John is one of my favorite movies, by far. The main character, John (Channing Tatum) is in the military and he meets this college student while he is on his leave. Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), is on her spring break and while she’s at the ocean she loses her purse in the water and John witnesses and jumps after it. They spend all their time together on John’s leave, and they suddenly fall deeply in love with each other. John then has to deploy again after the events of September 11th. Along with John, Savannah has to leave to go back to college. John and Savannah write letters back and forth the time that John is gone, but it tends to take a toll on their relationship. John truly loves this girl and would do anything for her. John expects that true will wait, especially for him when he gets back. He waits on her letters and looks forward to them because that’s what keeps him company on his deployment and he has something to look forward to when he gets home. Savannah seems like she would be a strong girl, and thinks so herself but after a period of time of her love being gone, she realizes that she’s not a strong as she thought she was. One thing that I and others can take away from this movie is that true love will wait for you, no matter how tough things get. I disagree when the critics say “it’s like a bad soap opera”. It resembles real life because we see these hardships with real people and what happens to john happens to many guys in real life. The critics compare this movie with The Notebook, and I think that Dear John beats The Notebook by far. This movie really reflects a real life relationship and is not a fantasy movie that makes things out to be what they are not. Dear John is with worth your time, money, and tissues.