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The first half of the movie seems a bit of monotonous and boring, I can’t help being moved to tears at the end…

Emily is a middle school pupil lives in a foster family. All her schoolmates think Emily is a freak because she rarely speaks, is hard to get along with,offends the teacher, and even intentionally drowns herself once. Only Arden, a shy boy is always caught eyes on her by her mysterious temperament.
Emily's biological mother died on one of her birthdays. Her biological father went crazy shortly after that and was institutionalized to the psych ward. Emily keeps in touch with her father through the birthday cards he sends her every year. When her father doesn't send a birthday card on her 16th birthday, Emily decides to take matters into her own hands.
Enlisting Arden's help, she runs away, and the pair sets out on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward.

I think Arden decides to help Emily for two reasons:

1. He likes her and her quiet character, shows kindness to her, sends a book as a birthday gift to her. Though Emily replies her coldness to Arden, treats him like the others.
   
2. The morning that Emily askes Arden, his parents were quarreling, and his father even had punched his head. Maybe he already has the idea of escaping from his parents in his mind for a long time, and just that morning, Emily gives him a sound reason and his grandmother also encourages him, providing everything he needs for their runaway.

Emily knows nothing about the second reason. She thought Arden maybe look more innocuous than the others; and maybe he is just interested in her skin and body, which is as shallow as the others. Yet Emily has no choice because she needs one's help in her plan of rescuing her father, and Arden is the only one she knows in that city.

As their journey progresses, Emily and Arden must depend on each other as they learn about life, love, loss, and letting go.

Emily's world collapsed suddenly when Mr. Goulding, the Director of the psych ward told her the fact. Her father was volunteered to stay here, not by any duress，which Emily can’t accept. How her father, the one she loves so much, could leave her behind as an orphan, letting her face the malevolence of the world alone as a 14 ages child. She doesn’t understand. She feels angry and grief so deeply.
Mr. Goulding is very gentle and kind, tries to explain more, so Emily could be comforted. Even the reason sounds like a series of philosophical enlightenments.

Yet I like every word of those sayings from Mr. Goulding,

“I often think the world turns out inside, Emily. People send the ones of physically and mentally innocent to me.

Have you read Plato? He wrote a great piece of poem——the Allegory of the Cave.

All the people are sitting a row in the cave, staring at the shadow flaming on the wall. For them, the shadow's the reality. One man frees him out, and finds a path out to the light. He’s down on the sun, and he’s enlightened. This man walks back to the cave, back into the shadow, back to free people. This man who saw the light, instead of basking in it, returned to help the others, which is according to Plato.
A philosopher, this man is your father.

The problem with the shipping people out of the darkness, is that the philosopher himself is blinded by the glared sun, or by grief, can loss the graben of what is the real, and what is the illusion.

This place is a cave for many people.”

This movie has a happy ending. Emily and Arden find her father in her grandfather’s sea house. Emily forgives her father, and she doesn’t mention any clue of those horrible foster experiences in the past two years. They make an agreement that her father, as a writer will live in the sea house, and Emily will go back to Mrs. Joan, a sort of nice foster mother lately.

There are so many beautiful Irish sceneries in the movie.

One more plot moved me into tears at the end. In her grandfather’s old sea house, Emily finally asks Arden why he would take those hardships and dangers to help her? For any shallow purpose? Arden goes angry and leaves Emily alone in the house. But later when Emily says to Arden that she doesn’t want to go back to the house because of the complain on her father, Arden says to Emily,

“We can leave anytime if you want.”

Emily replies to him this time, “Thanks for coming with me, Arden.” Arden smiles shyly and scratches his hair a little bit, and says “You’ve welcome.”

When they walk toward to the house where her father is in, and also the car of Arden parks, Arden holds Emily’s hand and says,

“Come on. Why not say something about me to your dad.” ——What avirtuousquality!!! The very first time, Emily willingly does as what Arden says.

I see little piece of heartfelt seen of pure emotion. Story takes turn and some seen are just not what you want or unnecessary, but this story strictly tells us that emotions of human beings may be complicated, and the reason for the complexity is just simple:

We pay so much effort or even a whole life, just want to see we are loved by the one who we love.

Emily has found she is loved by her father who she loves. How about ours?