Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.

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If this still seems like nothing more than a bodice ripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.

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