The Fault In Our Stars
Film Review
I LOVED IT!
Look, even though I watch John Green's vlogs on his Youtube channel vlogbrothers which he produces with his brother Hank, doesn't mean I'm going to be bias about this movie. When I first read the book my ending thought was, wow this is sad, obviously, but I also though damn John Green writes women well. I could feel what Hazel was feeling, even though I didn't have a terminal illness, I still felt the weight that was on her and Gus' shoulders and I felt for them. I think the film presented what was written perfectly.
What I liked:
The soundtracks fit the film perfectly.
The actors, when I first saw who was cast I thought, hmm yes I could get used to putting these names to these faces. Ansel fits Gus and Shailene fits Hazel.
Using ACTUAL QUOTES!! I exclaimed to my friends that the first dialogue in the film matched the ones written in the book and I adore when that happens, its so satisfying to be able to recognize something presented through another medium.
The acting. Can I please explain how good these actors were. Its like they inhaled the book and spurted out these mirror images. The heartbreak, the pain, the smiles, the flirtation, the everything, eugh it was just so good.
The humour, good humour was needed to balance out the pain in this film and I think they achieved this well.
The acceptance- The acceptance of disability, the acceptance of personal problems, feelings and emotions, I particularly liked the seen where Isaac was encouraged to smash up Gus' trophies to deal with his emotions, Gus did not care, he said go ahead even passed them to him himself. It just encouraged them to let it out and deal with them.
It made me cry- Twice. And just read the book so I wont have to tell you why.
FEMALE LEAD!!!! WITH A DISABILITY, FEMALE LEAD WITH A DISABILTY, A FILM ABOUT DISABILITY AND ILLNESS, WITH A FEMALE LEAD.
The romance- It was just so good, like the cutest thing ever, not this rom com crap you get repeated every month of the year, it was real, it was young and it felt natural. CHEMISTRY!!!
Things I did not like.
To be honest there is very little.
-John Green's cameo was not shown, maybe that was cut for people in the UK, I don't really know, but I saw it on Tumblr so I can get over it.
-The parents were a little cheesy, but that's sort of ok I suppose.
-The mothers reaction to the car getting pelted with eggs, she could of at least shouted at them.
-Van Houten's assistant to me, I pictured her differently and a bit older, not a big deal though.
-I can't think of more sorry.
Such a beautiful film, nice typography on screen, lovely camera shots, perfect presentation of Amsterdam, brilliant screenplay, great actors.
9.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582846/ - Film details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuVjGbncgQE - Film Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers - Vlogbrothers channel
