The Lucky One (2012) is a romantic drama based on Nicolas Sparks novel directed by Scott Hicks. Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) is a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq. During the night raid he finds a photogaraph of a smiling woman which saves his life. He starts to carry the photograph around with him as a good luck charm. Later on he comes back to Colorado and starts to suffer from PTSD (posttraumatic stress desorder) and survivor guilt. Logan finds coming back home difficult to adjust to. He decides it is best to leave, and he departs to find some peace from his memories and go look for the woman (Taylor Schilling as Beth Green) in the picture to thank her for saving his life. And as you can guess, they eventually end up in a relationship.
The plot is a very common as a romantic drama and may have many clichés on it; one goes and it ends up in a relationship. But at the same time in ”The Lucky One” the plot is really different. This one is truly touching in its genre. The execution is real indeed and the actors does a very deacent job on screen, I would say it is the best Zac Efron has ever made on his career. If you are a lover of very melodramatic movies or if you are a fan of Nicolas Sparks novels you should really go for it. I promise you will love it. The Lucky One takes you out of reality and it is the best about it. You can easily emagine how many ways this story would probably go wrong in real life, but it is the meaning of the movie; sugared and enviable story of two people finding each other the way it maybe would ever happen in real life.
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