"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is about a friendship with a known ending. The movie is as straightforward as the name, there is no heinous villain, and there is no bloody youth pain story, just like any inexplicable and profound friendship in our adolescence, but there is more death in the movie. The male protagonist Greg's greatest wish is to be a transparent person, he does not join any circles, and does not have a deep relationship with anyone in order to avoid conflicts. He seems to be free and easy, but he has low self-esteem, and he actively chooses to keep a distance from others because he is afraid of being excluded. Earl was a friend he grew up with, and they loved old movies and made a lot of homemade spoofs together. Even though he was so close to Earl, he never admitted that Earl was his friend, only a partner. Such a male protagonist was only truly integrated into a stranger's life for the first time after meeting Rachel, who had leukemia. The film never deliberately renders separation, Greg and Earl make movies together, Rachel and Greg watch their movies together, time passes, and Rachel's life is exhausted in the passage of time. There is a saying in "Disqualification in the World", "If you can avoid violent ecstasy, there will naturally be no grief." Greg had always pursued this way before meeting Rachel. After meeting Rachel, he began to open up his own world feelings. The connection of life to life. People are connected to each other because they have a common experience, whether it is happiness or pain, when the connection is deep enough, death will not be the end. Rachel inevitably died, but she was immortalized in Greg's world. I often wonder whether our so-called Buddhist system really sees through the detachment of everything, or if we get nothing and just pretend we don’t want to escape. We are so good at avoiding pain that we even reject pleasure because of it.
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