windsoc
06-16-14, 05:54 PM
I have just been to an advanced screening of "The Fault" at my local cineworld. It is a film I have been wanting to see for some time mainly because of Shailene Woodley. Prior to this I had seen her in The Decendents & The Spectacular Now and she was wonderful in both roles. This film is no exception. I really think she is someone to watch and think she is someone who will go on to be a wonderful actress.
The plot is one that is very simple. It is very much a boy meets girl, boy loves girl, girl falls for boy and they live happily ever after. In this case both boy and girl are dying and you are reminded throughout the film that she is dying, there is no getting around that but as for so many people who are ill be it a physical or mental illness she does not want pity, she just doesn't know what else she is meant to do and cannot see past anything, this touched me as this is very much where I am in my life. I don't want pity, I just want to be able to see past things.
As a I said in my one line review I do not believe there was a dry eye in the house (I saw a girl who must have been about 17 in floods of tears heading for the bathroom after I had left to wash my face) and one makes it even better is this film is giving me hope in cinema again. I don't wish to sound nasty or stir up bad feelings but more to say it is so nice to see a love story, a death story and a human story that I can fall in love with and never forget. To be able to say when walking out of the theatre tonight "damn. That was good" and that IS what matters to me in film. To be able to move someone, to be able to affect them emotionally and to wrap them up in the world even if it is only for 90 minutes, that is what makes film so great.
I could go on but I fear if I do I will end up posting spoilers and I don't want to do that but I do love and will always remember this line:
you don't have a choice to be hurt in this world, but you do have a choice as to who hurts you
It's right.
The plot is one that is very simple. It is very much a boy meets girl, boy loves girl, girl falls for boy and they live happily ever after. In this case both boy and girl are dying and you are reminded throughout the film that she is dying, there is no getting around that but as for so many people who are ill be it a physical or mental illness she does not want pity, she just doesn't know what else she is meant to do and cannot see past anything, this touched me as this is very much where I am in my life. I don't want pity, I just want to be able to see past things.
As a I said in my one line review I do not believe there was a dry eye in the house (I saw a girl who must have been about 17 in floods of tears heading for the bathroom after I had left to wash my face) and one makes it even better is this film is giving me hope in cinema again. I don't wish to sound nasty or stir up bad feelings but more to say it is so nice to see a love story, a death story and a human story that I can fall in love with and never forget. To be able to say when walking out of the theatre tonight "damn. That was good" and that IS what matters to me in film. To be able to move someone, to be able to affect them emotionally and to wrap them up in the world even if it is only for 90 minutes, that is what makes film so great.
I could go on but I fear if I do I will end up posting spoilers and I don't want to do that but I do love and will always remember this line:
you don't have a choice to be hurt in this world, but you do have a choice as to who hurts you
It's right.