The Fault in Our Stars Movie Blurb by Shale June 7, 2014 I had heard that there would be wet eyed moments in this movie and even took some tissues with me in prep. Didn't really need them. Oh yeah, my eyes misted in several spots but never leaked down my cheeks. This was a charming movie with very attractive young actors in the rolls of kids with cancer. Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) had thyroid cancer that affected her lungs. While she is in remission doing experimental drug trials, she still has trouble breathing. She also has attitude that should be expected from a teenager battling a very terminal cancer. At her mother's insistence she attends a group counseling session which she would rather not, until she meets Augustus (Gus) Waters (Ansel Elgort) who takes an interest in her, which she can't help but notice. Altho he has cancer that is in remission but took his leg above the knee before it was slowed he is actually at the meeting to support his friend Isaac (Nat Wolff) who is about to lose his remaining eye to cancer. Hazel & Gus Get Involved Hazel and Gus become friends and help each other thru their uncertain near futures. They differ in many ways but this is young love that quickly overcomes such differences. Hazel is really into an inspirational novel about cancer by a reclusive writer, Peter van Houten (Willem Dafoe). She gets Gus to read it who finds fault with the ending and who contacts van Houten - and gets a reply. Eventually they manage to get a trip to Amsterdam to meet the author. While in Amsterdam their relationship deepens as Hazel finally dares to love Gus as he loves her, overcoming her apprehensions about leaving others behind when she dies. One of the memorable lines by Hazel was when she admits, "I fell in love the way you fall asleep. Slowly, and then all at once." This ain't much of a blurb. IDK what to write about the story - it was mostly close-up shots of the handsome teens as they made hesitant advances to a first love, while always lurking in the background is the cancer, which may appear at any time. Surprisingly, it was an enjoyable movie. Just like the characters, you lose focus of the disease and narrow to the moment of joy that is happening now.
They kiss in the Anne Frank House. I can't imagine a more romantic and appropriate place I think it's a movie that mostly appeals to teenagers, and I'm not going to say it's good, or pretend to like it, just because it's about kids with cancer.
Who says it is good just to like it? Of course it is made to appeal to teenagers, teen girls to be specific with a carry over of young and older women. (I think I was the only guy in the showing I attended.) It plays on teen girl emotions just like the very popular and perhaps very bad Twilight movies. Nothing but Bella & Edward & Jake closeups with sighs & emotional meaningless dialogue. But, that's the movie it is and I did like it. Perhaps my romanticism filters much. Or, my old axiom, "I enjoy bad movies" might apply here, but there were enuf real critics who pointed out that it was a good movie.
My daughter read the book she was waiting for the movie to be released... We went opening night......I wasn't sure what to expect I didn't read the book I cried my eyes out.....several times during the movie...... Im pretty sure the whole theater was crying....... Good movie!!!!
I have not watched this movie yet but have read the book. I barely shed a tear in the book so I'm certain the movie won't get me to cry. What I liked about the book was that even though the two teens were so sick they were not "woe is me" they just wanted to be normal and be treated normal.
