Purple Hearts Review: Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine Are A Perfect And Well-Blended Couple On Screen

Starring: Sofia Carson, Nicholas Galitzine, Chosen Jacobs

Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

Streaming Platform: Netflix

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Purple Hearts is a film that angers for the wrong reasons. Directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, it is based on the novel of the same name by Tess Wakefield published in 2017. The screenplay is by Kyle Jarrow and Liz Garcia. Alloy Entertainment’s production. It is available on Netflix from July 29, 2022. In the cast, in the lead role, Sofia Carson. You will remember her if you have seen Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Or if you’ve been a fan of Descendants, Descendants 2 and Descendants 3. Carson also co-wrote the songs for the film with Justin Tranter.

Purple Hearts Review: The Story

Cassie is the daughter of illegal immigrants, she works as a waitress, has diabetes and has a secret dream: she wants to become a famous singer-songwriter. Luke has a history of addictions, and debts to pay and has just enlisted: he is about to leave for a mission in the Middle East as a marine of the United States of America. When they meet through a mutual friend, the two immediately detest each other. The economic problems, however, are stronger than everything. Cassi and Luke will decide to pretend to get married, to trick the US military to get health insurance and some extra cash in return. While on a mission, however, Luke is injured. What will happen?

Purple Hearts Review and Analysis

You understand everything and even more of everything since the trailer for this film is based on the Roman homonymous by Tess Wakefield, but thanks to the palpable chemistry between the two protagonists, how the two shorten the physical and emotional distances, and a rich soundtrack of catchy pop arrangements and an original tune that doesn’t get out of your head, Purple Hearts will easily garner fans of hallmark movies and purely sentimental Nicholas Sparks movie fans for a romantic summer at the right point. After all, Nicholas played Prince Charming for Cinderella. What more could you want from this end of July in streaming?

The mushy Hallmark TV movies as well as those already mentioned, the very sentimental in style The Pages of Our Life, to quote the progenitor, perfect for family evenings, at Christmas, during the holidays, have their infallible formula and work precisely for their reassuring predictability, with a happy ending, sometimes even tearful, assured. Everything must follow the pattern of the final moral and the good feelings and characters must be different only in appearance. Purple Hearts puts his foot in two brackets, takes a story seen and reviewed a thousand times, preserves the key narrative twists including also and of course the happy ending, and fills everything around the pivotal points.

He colors, builds the backgrounds of the two, furnishes the houses, gives a voice to friends and parents, takes care of the nail polish, and the hairstyles, and establishes the bases of the tastes, fears, and distrust of the two. He also risks it on more than one occasion with a bit of politics and criticism of American society when he deals with the issue of the war in Iraq and the role of the United States in doing the alleged good to others. All in order not to end up in the cauldron of forgotten films in your Netflix account.

To package a sentimental film as it should, however, the first real rule to follow, always and despite everything, is to believe in it. It is essential to consider what you are saying as plausible. The Words I Didn’t Tell You, a 1999 film, for example, is all based on the possibility that writing love letters put into a bottle thrown into the ocean is a charming and tormented man like Kevin Costner. With this unwritten law firmly in mind, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum directs her protagonists with tenderness and conviction. If there is or does not matter to us, the result is a story in which the blatant, sweet, dull gestures are taken seriously, the characters make them their own so that Purple Hearts, like the genres it inspires and takes as a model, take it or leave it, with no middle ground.

Cassie is a musician, and with her band, The Loyal, she is trying to break into the world of music. In the negligible sentimental films, we are used to, this would be just a useless side detail while Sofia Carson’s voice, her performance on stage and the song composed for her “husband” in Iraq, make the difference. Like Back Home, this is the title of the song, it is immediately catchy, cantabile, and almost a catchphrase. The piece was written ad hoc for the occasion by Justin Tranter, the same who has collaborations with half the world of music including Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga and even our Måneskin. It will certainly not be Lady Gaga’s Shallow, but it helps the film to level up and make it a vision in line with summer evenings.

Purple Hearts Review: The Last Words

Purple Hearts, electing it the sentimental film of this summer 2022, thanks to its mix of Nicholas Sparks romance and Hallmark movie-style do-goodness. Thanks to the voice of Sofia Carson, the original song Come back home, composed for her by Justin Tranter, and the chemistry between the actress and her counterpart Nicholas Galitzine, the film manages to get a little more noticed and at least guarantee not to be forgotten, let’s say until the end of August.