I guess I don't need to repeat the plot already,since most people have already made their effort to watch this in theaters. For people like me who hardly watch movies in the cinemas,this is definitely worth a trip to it.
I've read the book around 3 months ago, and as expected I cried,(not too badly) because it's a sad-ending-love-story(I cry to any book in which the protagonist will die). However, being an Asian with mediocre English level did not allow me to understand all their jokes and the poems in the book,which is kind of a loss. Fortunately, I could still understand the touching(cheesy) lines in it. The quotes which I liked the most were:
'My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations'---> this hits me a lot, I could never find a right way to express my thoughts precisely
'The world is not a wish-granting factory'
And of course, many other love-related lines. Not gonna write it down here because it would be a long list. Lines related to reality were more profound to me, because hardly do you see reality quotes in love stories.
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort weren't my imaginary Hazel and Gus,but I have to say they chosen the right cast. Everyone in the movie portrayed their characters perfectly. Especially for Gus,Ansel didn't look as good looking as I imagined in the book,but his performance was excellent. He's literally a walk-out-Augustus-from-the-book. At least the team didn't look for some Disney guy to play Gus because Gus would look really pretentious by then. Their expressions were too typically Disney that you would think you're watching Cinderella or Beauty and The Beast. Down to earth is the word. They look real.
People normally prefer the book over the movie(I'm also one of them),but this time it's a tie for me. They were equally good,except the movie didn't tell the whole story,what a shame. :(
When I was watching the movie, I find myself crying to any random scene. Gus and Hazel flirting(well that occurred in almost every scene),Isaac yelling on how Monica did not come to see him after he went blind, Hazel was admitted during a remission, Gus and Hazel in Amsterdam, Gus's funeral......
And then I realised, all the time I was reading the book as a reader, but during the movie I was watching it as a half reader-half-Hazel. Throughout the movie I knew how will the story go, and even though when I watch them smile or flirt, I see it as a tragedy, because they're moving closer to the sad ending. I guess that's what made me shed my tears in almost every scene.
Another scene that caught me the most was when Hazel had trouble breathing. Her parents just burst into her room, which make it seemed so real that I thought Shailene was really having a hard time breathing. It hit me more when her father just carry her without thinking,because this is what real parents do. Maybe I was thinking in an old-fashioned Chinese way where father-daughter relationship cannot be really intimate because manners and superiority were the barriers between them and fathers would less likely carry your own daughter when she's a teenager already but yeah, I felt the strong fears of being a parent of a child like Hazel.
And then comes Gus starting to fall sick, then Hazel and Isaac prepared their eulogies for Augustus. I'll have to say the movie made me understand better in the Inifinity theory, I didn't get the meaning of the comparison back when I read the book. Then coming closer to the end, Augustus dies and so and forth. Tears were streaming down from my eyes in the following scenes.
A few days later I decided to reread TFIOS. Gave me more feels about the story.
There was a line in the book where Gus's mother told Hazel that their relationship wasn't puppy love, it is, true love between them. And finally, I catch that special(God help me my vocab store is not big enough to describe this) emotion between Gus and Hazel.
And for today, I woke up at around 7 in the morning and surprisingly I couldn't go back to sleep anymore. The worse thing is that today is a Saturday I should sleep in!! Since I still have time to lace in my bed I decided to leave my iPod playing random songs. Then comes this song named "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie. The lyric was about how a guy is losing his love,the ill Sarah in the ICU and Sarah suddenly came into a realisation where "love is watching someone die"
So much to relate to TFIOS.
You love someone for your entire life and you do realise that living with and loving them is indirectly watching them die day by day.
Then the song ended with a slow,dying mumble of "who's gonna watch you die"
Who's gonna watch you die at the end of the day?
