the fault in our stars

i went to go see the fault in our stars at a 9 pm showing on the thursday night before it was released. not the night before our stars, because i wasn't about to shell out $25 for that. especially since my sister, who did end up going to it, came home five minutes after i did. 

the girls i went with! we did well with the lighting, i know.

i'm just going to come right out and say this though: i did not cry. 

i'd also just like to clarify, however, that this does not mean that i thought the movie was horrible.

the movie itself was really well done, it was funny and sad and all the right amount of in between. shai and ansel were fabulous, as was the rest of the cast. by all standards, it was a good movie. i'd definitely call it a good movie. but you've probably already heard that. 

oh, also, before i get any further, i'm just going to tell you right now: 

go see the movie. just do it. 

right. 

"and who am i, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it--or my observation of it--is temporary?" #homemadeshirts

so. what did i think? 

to be honest, i'm not entirely sure what i thought of the movie. it's been a few months and i'm still trying to wrap my head around it. the most that i've been able to come up with has to do with the fact that everyone (or at least hazel and gus) is pretentious. one of my friends said it best when she said that the entire point of the book was that their fatal flaw was their pretentiousness.

i've been struggling with this for a while now, and i've been called, many, many names (heartless monster, and a twig amongst them--all in good spirit though) and ultimately, my conclusion from all of this was that i didn't like the movie.

i didn't like the movie.

wow, that feels good to say!

like i said earlier, i think a lot of it had to do with the pretentiousness of the characters. ansel, while fabulous, made it too easy for me to come out of the world they were all trying to create. and while i don't mean to bash ansel, because his is a fantastic gem of a human, i don't know if he was necessarily the right choice for gus. hell, i don't know if anyone would have been the right choice.

nobody believed me when i said didn't cry but i literally took this right after i got home. no tears.

in the end, i just didn't connect emotionally with any of the characters, and ultimately, i think that's why i didn't cry, and part of the reason that i didn't like the movie.

i like movies i can relate to, and, thankfully, i can't relate to cancer in any way, shape, or form. i'm kind of hoping it stays that way.

honestly, i'm not writing this to deter you from seeing the movie, if you haven't already. it was a great film, really well done, and really funny for a sad movie. go see it. go support ya literature. read the book if you haven't.

we're on a roller coaster that's only going up, my friends.

have you seen tfios? what did you think?

-em xx