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Mandy Moore plays a fairly straight laced daughter of a minister in A Walk to Remember who finds out that being involved in relationships with others is more than following a list of to do's and to don'ts. When she is placed in the path of Shane West's character, a 'bad boy' who also needs to learn the value of looking beyond the a person's surface characteristics, the two find that understanding others, and understanding themselves, is a matter of getting past the surface habits, into the 'real' person that often hides, afraid of contact and rejection.
Early in the movie, the two are riding on the bus to school together, and the issues of personal knowledge and personal acceptance are brought to the surface via a typically teen conversation. Mandy attempts to engage Shane in a conversation, and is abruptly shut down. He doesn't appreciate her attempts to be nice, and rejects the idea that she could be remotely interested in a real conversation. He snaps back that he knows all about her already, and doesn't need her trying to be nice to him. In response, Mandy says, "Don't pretend you know me." Shane snaps back all the external data he has collected about her during their 10 or so years of school together. She only has one sweater - when she walks, she looks at her feet - she always sits at the same table in the lunch room - and her bible is rarely far away. All the externals about Mandy are clues enough, for Shane, to tell hem that he isn't interested. But Mandy's response is on a surprisingly deeper level, and foreshadows the direction of the rest of the movie. She say's "I've heard that before."
In other words, Mandy's character knows the external things about herself, and how they have formed social barriers around her. But she also knows that those eternal things do not define the person and young woman she is becoming. She may be an awkward, ugly duckling as she approached people, but she wants to find a way out of her shell, and connect with another person. The movie, in a theme which as been woven into hundreds of other box office titles, follows the two as they break through the social stereotypes to find that the individual, the substance of their personhood, is more than their external habits and shells.
2) wHAT SOCIAL OR PERSONAL ISSUES ARE INTRODUCED AND HOW ARE THEY ADDRESSED?- COVERTLY OR OVERTLY
The social issues in the movie revolve around the lifestyle each character has experienced, and the associated stereotypes which the characters need to work through in order to begin to understand themselves and the other. Mandy's character is a preacher's daughter. She has a straight laces approach to life, and is content with herself in a structured, and well defined existence.
As the two are getting to know each other, the relationship created significant turmoil for Mandy. At one point, in a line heard in dozen's of films, she stops running from him, and says "My life was fine - until I met you." In other words she though she new herself, and her desires for her life until a person engaged her that was so different, yet so similar.
Conversely, the bad boy Shane thinks that his life is together, and he understands himself as a function of his social identity until he meets a girl, that is unlike him, and gives him a reason to question the rebelliousness which he has made his moniker. Both of the characters are living behind social habits that are becoming walls until the other gives them reasons to question the boundaries, and find personal motives to change.
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