Jill who was very close to her sister and really struggled to come to terms with her death, found great comfort in leaving her voicemails about everything going on in her life. After a while though phone companies allocate old numbers and Wes begins to get the voicemails.
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When you break it down the core of the story is actually very deep and quite frankly something we all have to try and cope with or maybe more deal with as we go through life, the loss of a loved one who we are really close to. That grief can well and truly take over every single part of your life. Jill had been dealing with this by still talking to her sister Isabelle through leaving voicemail on all of the crazy antics of her life.
Straight away I thought that this was actually a really good way to do it, I have seen many different posts on social media about people sending messages still to loved ones and how actually at some point that number can come into circulation again. I felt as though the way that this film was put together managed to captured just how that can help someone.
Naturally though this is in the rom com genre and it was going to have some issues eventually, when Wes manages to meet Jill and is not honest about the number and we know how that is going to end. Nevertheless Wes is not Tom Hanks, what a great line that was by the way! (Although I would gladly start a petition for Nick Robinson to be the next Tom Hanks).
Voicemails for Isabelle is one of those lovely surprises from Netflix, showing that they really can do something right for this genre of film. It also made me remember that Nick Robinson is good and should be cast in way more films! Alongside Zoey Deutch it just worked so nicely. I feel as though like everything and the changes to life in general that this is very much highlighting what life is like in the 2020’s and at times films really do manage to capture that moment in time, very similar to how You”ve Got Mail really thrived in the 1990s and shows just how popular email and AIM were!
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