My oxford years The ending is significantly different from the novel on which it is based.
The story follows American graduate student Anna (Sofia Carson) during her year in Oxford, where she falls in love with her professor Jamie (Corey Mylchreest), after both originally decides to keep things relaxed.
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Anna then discovers that the real cause behind his lack of commitment is a rare form of terminal cancer. In the book, Jamie travels through Europe with Anna before he dies.
In the film, however, Anna sits by the bed as he slides away. She only imagines the adventures with him, and then he fades from the scenes and reveals that he never got to travel with her.
Lead Stars Sofia and Corey explain how it came to, with Queen Charlotte The star first and foremost to clarify the film’s ambiguous ending and declare, “The guy is dead.”
“It’s better like that,” he added gently. “It’s more powerful. That’s the direction the book is on its way and it would feel like hypocrisy for Jamie to talk all these things and to Anna to understand that the philosophy of life [and not end there]”
“The impressive thing is that Jamie believes in all these things – forever is composed of now – and he doesn’t have so many now left,” Corey added.
“So what is really amazing is that he does all this and believes in all these things with really not so much time left. If it wasn’t true, it would feel like we were underestimating his faith,” he explained further.
Sofia, who weighs in, said, “Although it is clear Anna alone at the end, we left it slightly ambiguous because we wanted the film to end with hope and with light.”
“That’s why we wanted to show them to live all these things together,” she continued. “And when he disappears, and when he’s gone and you assume she’s lost him, it’s the element of hope and the idea of life after love and life after loss a truly powerful thing.”
