By cajiro on Skatehive
It seems somewhat ironic to say that a film in which the main character believes laughter is the best medicine contains what, for me, is one of the saddest scenes I have ever seen in a film, a death that breaks my heart every time I watch Patch Adams. Carin's death is the most unfair thing that could happen to a love story that did not deserve the ending it had. Why is it so shocking? That is a question I now ask myself, and perhaps what makes me feel a certain pain and sadness is precisely the way Carin and Patch meet and how the same circumstances led this enthusiastic medical student to a tragic end. Source While Patch noticed Carin with a kind of attraction at first sight, for Carin it was completely different. In fact, at first she considered Patch to be a lazybones who didn't take his studies seriously, until his grades made Carin realise that Patch had a different and very special style. Little by little, things fell into place, and after several encounters, Patch decided to tak