Anyway I loved it! It's based on a true story. Patch Adams is determined to become a doctor but his love for helping others, excessive happiness and the way he develops a friendly relationship with all his patients doesn't go well this the medical board's way of running things. He soon notices that poor people can't get the medical treatment they need so he as a student formed the Gesundheit Clinic. The clinic was to aid those who could not get the proper treatment at the hospital and to give them a better quality of life.
Just the way he always works towards his goals even when things go wrong or when bad things happen he is still motivated and cheerful. It's so inspirational.
SPOILER ALERT! :P
During the film you see Patch develop a romantic relationship with a woman called Cairn. She among others help Patch with his clinic. He starts to recite a poem for her one day when she wakes up but doesn't get to finish it. She is then killed by a man she was trying to help. At her funeral Patch waits till everyone is gone. Then alone he stands at her coffin and finishes the poem just as he said he would.
Although the whole film was memorable it was that poem that stuck with me most. It reminds me of my boyfriend. How i feel about him. It's like the poet knew exactly how i feel and wrote it. This is the poem ^.^
Sonnet 17
By Pablo Neruda
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way
because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I nor you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep
it is your eyes that close.
I would recite this poem to my boyfriend who i love so deeply but i'm not sure how he would react and i'm quite shy so i'd get really embarrassed and stuff lol.
This really has to be one of my new favourite films <3
