The Fault in Our Stars
Adapted for the screen by the gifted two-man writing team responsible for The Spectacular Now and (500) Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars — a love story about two witty, engaging teenagers with cancer — is a heartbreaker for sure, but it’s also a sweet, romantic film full of sudden warmth and humor. It gets everything right about being young and in love for the first time, from the shared secret codes that mean so much to the sheer physical joy of being close to someone who likes you. Best of all, the film never makes its characters into stoic or tragic heroes, choosing instead to highlight what makes them human — their hopes, their fears, their anger, the way they learn to live with knowing they’re going to die.
The Fault in Our Stars is a near-perfect film in terms of its respective dramatic goals and narrative benchmarks. It features winning performances from a game and completely committed cast. It offers a strong and poignant screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, in turn adapted (faithfully, I’ll presume) from John Green’s popular novel. Having been lucky enough to avoid much contact with the world the film inhabits, I cannot say how accurate it is from a day-to-day or moment-to-moment basis, but the picture absolutely feels honest and feels true in terms of its specific emotional journeys. Yes it is unabashed melodrama and yes it combines sobering and unsentimental drama with occasionally fantastical romance, but in those terms it is an unequivocal success.
The Fault in Our Stars is a pretty great film for audiences of every demographic.
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