#The fault in our stars movie genre movie
This movie is the newest teen craze - it took in $48.2 million in its opening weekend. If you have an Internet connection (and I hope you do), you are probably already a little familiar with this story. Augustus has a prosthetic leg which he displays with an affected nonchalance. Hazel keeps her oxygen tank with her throughout the movie. But though the film emphasizes that these kids are more than their disease, their disease also permeates every aspect of the movie. They egg a nasty girl’s house in revenge for breaking their friend Isaac’s heart. They visit Amsterdam, which in the film is rendered beautifully and suffused with canals, champagne and charming waiters. Together, the two poke fun at their cancer narratives. Her love interest, Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) is the ideal young adult genre love interest: He’s attractive, wise and blatantly, conveniently in love with the protagonist. Hazel Grace (Shailene Woodley) is the cuttingly self-aware protagonist who narrates the movie, keeping the literary aspect to the story. The movie’s premise is not original - a smart, funny teenage girl falls in love with a smart, funny teenage boy. Actually, pretty much everyone in the theater seemed to be openly weeping. I was bawling too hard to make smarmy allusions to the best-selling novel by John Green this movie is based on. When I walked out of “The Fault in our Stars,” my thoughts were stars I couldn’t fathom into constellations. Post Views: 2,102 Courtesy of 20th Century Fox