There are a lot of things that I don’t pretend to understand and one of those is the atmosphere. I don’t get the scientific part of anything, but hey, I can admit my shortcomings. Science is one of those.
But what I do know is Christmas movies and Hallmark. I know the difference between a good and a bad movie, as well as what I can expect from a movie that comes from the channel. At least I had. But like science is ever changing so is Hallmark. What never changes though, is the joy of Christmas and Hallmark’s ability to deliver on that.
Did you know there are 35 different types of known snowflakes? I didn’t. But here we are – a movie about a photographer named Teagan, who has photographed 34 of these snowflakes, but the 35th one is elusive to her. It’s the rarest of the rare, which of course some art collector wants her to find in order for him to bid on all of her pictures.
Teagan doesn’t want money for herself. She wants it to help the town. She is so used to putting everyone before herself, which is part of what makes her so special. A lot of characters like this become so annoying because they are doing it for the wrong reasons. But Teagan, she’s definitely not doing it for the wrong reasons. She wants the world to be better and she wants to honor her Mom.
The pressure that she puts on herself is sad. She’s always got this beautiful smile happening and she makes your believe that she’s okay. However, she’s not. She’s definitely going to do whatever it takes though to make it seem like she is okay, but that’s why it’s good that someone who really knows her enters the picture.
Noah and Teagan dated in high school. He recently moved back to town and has taken over the snow plow business. She takes a student from her photography class home and runs into Noah. It’s an awkward moment and TBH, at that moment I felt like they had no chemistry.
But I was wrong.
When Teagan is insistent on finding this infamous snowflake, her student is worried about her going alone. She tells her Dad this and Noah heads to check on her. I do believe that Noah went in part for his daughter, but I also think that he was looking forward to spending time with Teagan.
My biggest complaint is kinda stupid. It’s the lack of conflict between the two. I do understand that in life there isn’t always conflict and sometimes people just accept that you’ve moved on, you’ve had a past, and it is what it is. But this is a movie, and I was looking forward to some struggle to get these two to see eye to eye. Instead they angst is at a minimum.
What I also didn’t like about the movie was the secondary storyline, with a competing photographer. It was useless and left us with time that could have been filled with making tension between Teagan and Noah something that actually feels like it exists.
It feels like watching two wet noodles try to not show that they were overcooked. Yes, bad analogy, but I am hungry.
I do believe that part of what is expected by the viewer in romance movies is some conflict. The pivotal moment in this movie was Teagan loosing her camera and Noah going back to get it. Which hey, kudos dude. Impressed with you and your heart, Noah.
I also know that sometimes people just grow apart so there is that and that may be all of what happened way back when. We know that the two will end up together, and that it’s just a matter of time.
I know that it sounds like I am hating this movie, but I don’t. I think that Falling Like Snowflakes did its job. In the same breathe I also believe that it didn’t get a perfect performance review, because it tried too hard to be difference, and ending up not giving the greatest customer service. Yes, I am using analogies, but I think that you get the point.
Does she get her snowflake? Of course she does. Still don’t understand how she gets these snowflake pictures, but that’s okay. Somethings I am not meant to understand.
What Falling Like Snowflakes lacks is the reasoning/motivation as they go from scene to scene. It’s as if they didn’t know how to piece it together and find it’s happy ending without just slapping it there. It left pieces of the movies feeling like there were just big holes everywhere and (metaphorically) we all just needed to jump over them. It’s 2 hours of plot holes and well, sometimes that gets annoying.
Would I watch it again? Sure. I will always watch a Christmas movie over and over again.
But this one wouldn’t be something that I stop life for to make sure I catch. It didn’t bring me that much Christmas cheer.
Thank you for this review. We saw this movie just yesterday. Liked it enough for me to search on how to photograph snowflakes. Other photographer’s antagonism was ineffective. Her desire to find the rare snowflake made no sense.
The first scene withe the two protagonists together exuded awkwardness. Yup, there is a past conflict here, the beginning of the journey, but nothing materialized. Teagan’s friend’s explanation to the daughter was so meh. Where’s the beef!
Still, I can’t complain. My wife and I enjoyed this movie. It was nice, but i believe it could have been much more involved, with a much more satisfactory ending.