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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (7 Stars)
Plot: A pair of teenagers with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love.*
Most movie reviewers will not add a movie like this to their list. A romance teen drama movie is not something that a middle-aged male movie reviewer would want to see. But I am fully invested in movies like this including The Fault in Our Stars, If I Stay, and of course the whole Twilight Saga. When I saw that Five Feet Apart was coming out in theaters, I knew this was a movie that I wanted to see but I also wanted to be in the right mindset to see this movie.
About six months ago, I lost someone very dear to me. Someone that I won't be able to touch again. Someone I won't be able to talk to again. Someone that was very special to me. She was my person (for all you Grey's Anatomy fans out there). So to see any movie about death or about dying is very difficult for me. During the movie, there were quite a few times were emotion for me ran high and I had to tune out of what the movie was saying because I was nervous about have a panic attack. But overall the movie shows what it means to die, lose a friend, and even deal with a very intense disease.
From the beginning title, I knew this movie was going to be a good one. As you all know I am a graphics person. As the title screen came up, the Five Feet drifted to the left of the screen and the Apart drifted to the right. So already the editors and director are giving the illusion that there is a separation happening. The movie starts off a little show but during those slow parts, you get to know those characters deeply and create an emotional tie to them. From the main nurse to the other patients that have CF, you start to feel like you're a part of their group.
And from the tile and the photo on the movie poster, you get the feeling of that separation but still the connection between the two main characters. By the way, when did all teenage romance movies tun into one or two sick kids falling in love and one of them ultimately dying or letting the other one go? Whatever happened to vampires and wizards? I have never seen the two main characters in other films. And after seeing them in this film, I wouldn't necessarily say I would see a movie because of them. I think they did a great job portraying lovers going through hardship and trying to fight a disease together. However, the main guy was no Robert Pattinson or Noah Centineo.
The part of the movie that really struck me was the friend dying. I feel like I should've known that was coming because the movie was just going on too good. I wasn't expecting that friend to die. That's when my emotions really kick in for the whole movie. I got an idea for all movie theaters: You know how movie theaters give you 3-D glasses when you going to see a 3-D movie. Why don't they give you a package of Kleenex every time you go see a tearjerker?
Overall, this movie was very intense and brought up a lot of great and not so great feelings. It showed what it means to find true love and what it would feel like if you couldn't touch the person you love. Patients with CF can't touch each other because the might contract each other's mucus and get sick. It really makes you think about your life and showing the person in your life how much you appreciate them. She even said it at the end of the movie before the credits rolled that you should go home and tell the person you love how much they mean to you.
In the theater I saw this movie in, everyone was a woman except for one person. And I believe everyone in that theater was brought to tears by this movie. Even my best friend, who some times has a hard exterior. Our feelings and tears had us so overcome that we actually watched some of the credit so we wouldn't leave the theater looking like we just balled our eyes out. This leaves me with a question, should we, like we do on violent movies, put a disclaimer in front of emotionally charged movies stating if you are not stable this movie is not for you?
Seven stars might surprise you. With romance movies like The Notebook and Everything, Everything, but this movie brought a different dynamic that was unexpected. I would recommend it if you want a good ugly cry or want to score points with your lady.
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