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The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars

What do you say about a movie that is so perfect?
There is nothing that comes to mind except that this isn’t a movie it is a spiritual experience. It carries no message except to say that Love and be loved. It shall not teach you any lessons, it doesn’t preach, does nothing except that it just sucks you in and doesn’t let go of you. It’s a whirlpool of the most perfect kind.
I cannot remember when a movie was cast so perfectly! Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are the star crossed lovers. The actors are so natural and unassuming that after a point very soon in the movie you forget that it’s a movie and you just become a part of their lives. It’s a simple story, told even more simply. The basic premise of the movie remains the same as any other love story. Girl meets boy, they fall in love and dream of a life together…. Only thing is they can’t…. They both have cancer and actually meet at a support group. One would say that it has shades of “A Walk to Remember”. It is awfully similar but gosh it is so so different! A Walk to Remember is a favourite of mine and each time that I see it I do know that the acting in it is bad. That’s where this movie stands out. And I refuse to compare it to another eternal classic- Love Story.
Yes in all the movies someone dies but there is something special about this one. I had read the book that it is based on in bits and parts and let me tell you that the best dialogues have been used in the movie and I just don’t want to read the book anymore. I have experienced the movie and that is how I want to leave it.
Let no one tell you that the movie is depressing or sad etc….
It is just one beautiful experience that you absolutely can’t afford to miss. Do carry loads of tissues as you are not coming out of this one dry eyed. Sob your heart out and feel cleansed, as did almost everyone in the theatre that I saw it in.
I leave you with the most beautiful words I have heard in a long while and oh delivered so perfectly-


“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

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