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Everything essentially distills into this one point: we have the choice, and it is up to us to make that choice, since no one else can make it. I encourage you to go and watch this film, as it is a film that depicts the human life at its most painful and heartbreaking, yet it provides profound hope that even though our mortality is the one fact with which we have to bear with, we can control how we confront it. It is these films that dared to break through the swamp of cliche "High School Musical" genre stagnation.īask in all the glories of Shailene Woodley-ness "The Spectacular Now", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" are smart coming-of-age films that depict our adolescent years with clarity and a touch of painful honesty that is tinged in nostalgia. But one of my favorite reasons (my most biased reason) is that I personally admire Shailene Woodley greatly ever since I saw her previous works in the equally amazing films "The Descendants" and "The Spectacular Now". The editing is really good, and the soundtrack is pure eargasm to listen to.
#The fault in our stars (2014) movie#
There are many other factors that made this movie stand out so much among this years numerous films, namely John Green's or the director's smart decision to make the characters unique and memorable while dispensing them from the horrors of cardboard characterizations and cliched teenager stereotypes.
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It seems as if they are circumventing around a topic that they are clearly avoiding, namely that of death itself, or more precisely, the fear of death itself. Take another scene for example, in that scene, Hazel is talking with her parents, and one might start getting suspicious of a certain ambiguity in their conversations. All the delicacy, the tenderness, and the intimacy Hazel held towards Gus (and vice versa) culminates in that one gaze, and although no dialogue is exchanged between the two in that scene, there is nothing else that needs to be said. In one scene, we can see Hazel looking at Gus while Gus is looking at the other direction, and lowers her head and avoided Gus shyly when he returns his gaze towards Hazel lovingly. There is a tension and a subtle flow of emotions that paints, pervades, and underlies each and every scene and dialogue in between the characters. The importance of this work, the theme of the movie lies not what is being shown or said rather, it lies behind what is not being said. Even if some of the supporting cast come off as merely functional, the core of the tragedy comes to life in a moving and devastating way.But what intrigues me the most is not what is explicitly shown in front of me on the screen. That’s part of the book’s inspiring touch. Though supported by Woodley’s subtle narration, ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ relentlessly wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s a welcome interlude where the reality of suffering is expanded to include bitterness, cynicism and even a political dimension when the lovers visit Anne Frank’s house. But the original story, faithfully honoured here, is bolder than its set-up implies: their shared love of a novel about a child with cancer leads the ailing couple from Indianapolis in the US to Amsterdam to meet the book’s reclusive author (Willem Dafoe). He puts his texting, vulnerable lovers front and centre, and even manages to coach Laura Dern, playing Hazel’s mother, away from her familiar smeary cry-face. The lion’s share of the credit should go to 35-year-old director Josh Boone (‘Stuck in Love’). Even as Hazel meets and falls for upbeat charmer Gus (Ansel Elgort, Woodley’s ‘Divergent’ co-star) in a kids cancer support group, there’s believable banter between them that redeems a long foreseen outcome, known to anyone who’s ever waded into the salty pool of movies like ‘Love Story’. Her effortless regular-girl charm turns oxygen-tank-carrying Hazel into a fully fleshed-out teenager.
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The film’s linchpin is actress Shailene Woodley (already the saviour of several iffy films, including ‘Divergent’). It finds its own understated way to earn tears, and that’s a tricky thing to pull off given the material.
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This adaptation of John Green’s bestselling 2012 young adult novel about a teenage girl in love and living with cancer is far from the shameless emotional pummelling it might have been.