This brings me back to what I will lovingly call the “cryfest” in the theater. When Hazel says that line, you’re right there, nodding and sobbing along with her grief. Instead, it compels you to feel everything unironically and to empathize with the characters as they struggle to make use of their limited time. “The Fault in our Stars” doesn’t roll its eyes and it doesn’t let you smirk.
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It’s a pretentious and unabashedly gushy line but this movie is a hundred percent filled with unrelenting emotion, whether happy or tragic. “Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity,” Hazel says at one point in the film. This movie does not end happily but it does require the audience to suspend their sense of cynicism. And of course, like every teen movie since John Hughes, the main character Hazel proclaims that her life is nothing like a teen movie.īut she’s surprisingly right. There’s schmaltzy music that swells up whenever the two protagonists kiss. Characters yell and affirm their love for one another constantly. Though “The Fault in our Stars” aims for originality, the dialogue is sometimes sugary sweet and cringey. However, the movie does fall victim to the tropes of the romantic comedy genre. As Hazel so eloquently puts it, “There’s only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.” There’s a strong focus on the kids’ parents and the movie is better and more realistic for it. This is a love story - but it’s also about dying and the family members of people with cancer. Instead, this movie is disarmingly honest. However, “The Fault in our Stars” is not picking up the dubious tradition of cliche teen romance left by other book-to-movie adaptations, like “Twilight.” This movie is the newest teen craze - it took in $48.2 million in its opening weekend.
If you have an Internet connection (and I hope you do), you are probably already a little familiar with this story. Augustus has a prosthetic leg which he displays with an affected nonchalance.
Hazel keeps her oxygen tank with her throughout the movie. But though the film emphasizes that these kids are more than their disease, their disease also permeates every aspect of the movie. They egg a nasty girl’s house in revenge for breaking their friend Isaac’s heart. They visit Amsterdam, which in the film is rendered beautifully and suffused with canals, champagne and charming waiters. Together, the two poke fun at their cancer narratives. Her love interest, Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) is the ideal young adult genre love interest: He’s attractive, wise and blatantly, conveniently in love with the protagonist. Hazel Grace (Shailene Woodley) is the cuttingly self-aware protagonist who narrates the movie, keeping the literary aspect to the story.
The movie’s premise is not original - a smart, funny teenage girl falls in love with a smart, funny teenage boy.
Actually, pretty much everyone in the theater seemed to be openly weeping. I was bawling too hard to make smarmy allusions to the best-selling novel by John Green this movie is based on. When I walked out of “The Fault in our Stars,” my thoughts were stars I couldn’t fathom into constellations. Post Views: 1,360 Courtesy of 20th Century Fox