Safe Haven is a romantic movie which is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. The director of the movie is Lasse Hällström and the stars are Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel and Cobie Smulders. In North America the premiere of the film was on February 14, 2013.
The movie is a story about escaping a violent husband and finding a love with a proper man from the small town. The plot is quite cheesy but it still works well. In the beginning of the film Katie (Julianne Hough) must to protect herself from her husband’s drunken assault. She stabs Kevin (David Lyons) with a knife and flees to the small town of Southport, North Carolina. There she falls in love with Alex (Josh Duhamel) and befriends with Jo (Cobie Smulders). Kevin starts looking for Katie and finally finds her. For a while Katie plays to Kevin that she wants to go back home. When Kevin believes her and doesn’t expect that she could do anything bad to him Katie pushes Kevin to the lake. But he doesn’t drown. Kevin gets really angry and tries to shoot Katie but by accident he shoots himself. In the end of movie Katie, Alex and Alex’s children Lexie and Josh live happily ever after.
Safe Haven is visually pretentious because the staging and costumes are really beautiful. The stars were also chosen well. Julianne Hough played well Katie and her feelings about being maltreated. I think that Josh Duhamel was really good in Alex’s role because he is just so handsome and charismatic actor. Landscapes of the small town are peaceful and they create an illusion that the town truly is a safe haven. The soundtrack of the movie also continues beautiful and romantic line. In my opinion it fits exactly to the film. The artists are for example Colbie Caillat, Tristan Prettyman, Lissie, Dar Williams and Sara Haze. My favorite songs of the soundtrack are Tristan Prettyman’s Say anything and Lissie’s Go your own way.
I really liked Safe Haven because I just simply love films which are romantic and have a happy ending. I think that the entirety of the movie is very successful. It’s weird that I can’t say any bad word about that movie even if I’m very critical. The story is just so lovely that this is one of the best movies which I have ever seen.
Sources:
Wikipedia and my own head