Written to "Fault in the Stars"

Stuart 2022-03-19 09:01:03

A story of a terminally ill boy and girl falling in love. Meeting in a patient meeting, just like the bridge we are all familiar with, the two people noticed each other from the first sight. Everyone introduced themselves to each other. It turned out that the boy came with a friend who was about to lose his eyes. He looked handsome and sunny. The only difference was that he lost a leg because of the previous cancer treatment. Meeting, acquaintance, and acquaintance, without the complicated setbacks in romantic drama, because of each other's misfortune, but the original innocence of love. The girl recommended her favorite book to the boy. The boy complained about the unclear ending after reading it. Although the girl still lied for the author, she agreed with it. The boy tried to contact the author who was already in a foreign country, and the other party politely invited to meet. The girl was seriously ill and this wish came to nothing, and the two finally got their wish, but what they saw was an alcoholic with a weird character and a prickly talk. The girl's disappointment was overwhelming. At the end of the journey, the boy told the girl that in fact, his illness had relapsed again, and it was very serious. Finally, the boy fell ill, and the person who was supposed to take care of himself became the object of care. After the boy sees everything clearly, he wants to organize a pre-funeral for himself, inviting the girl and his blind best friend to attend.
Abandoning the life experience of two people, the love, affection, and friendship in the story are the ones that we all experience but hardly empathize with. Sometimes, I wonder if it is only in this kind of desperate situation where I know that there is not much time to love purely and desperately. Think about it, facing such a proposition in person, I will always think about it, and even inexplicably distressed and regretful. Compared with some people, it is too "luxury". We squander a lot of energy on seemingly meaningless wandering, and we can't take a step. No one would want to exchange the so-called "true love" at the price of being terminally ill, because there is no need, and it is enough to cherish what is in front of you. Use love to answer those who love you, he will definitely understand.
The rhythm of the film is slow, and the soundtrack is just right. In addition to the protagonist, the most impressive thing to me is the boy's friends. When he appeared on the stage, he had already lost an eye, but proudly showed off with everyone present in the patient's club that he had a superb girlfriend. When the girl came to the boy's house for the second time, she saw that he was a little emotionally out of control, and she realized that he had been ruthlessly abandoned. When the boy and the girl were talking about the topic of the book, the friend smashed the trophy the boy was playing basketball behind to vent their anger. Finally, at the boy's pre-funeral for himself, the author was deeply moved by a sentence from his friend's speech, and tears suddenly lie down on his cheeks. As the end, share it with you who have read this.
"When one day, a future scientist comes to my house, holding a robotic eyeball, and asking me to try it out.
"I will tell them to fuck off, because...
"Because I don't want to see a world without you."
2014.11.9

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The Fault in Our Stars quotes

  • Hazel Grace Lancaster: [In Voice-Over/Narrative] It was unbearable... The whole thing. Every second, worse than the last. One of the first things they ask you in the ER is to rate your pain on a scale from one to ten. I've been asked this question hundreds of times. And I remember once when I couldn't catch my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, the nurse asked me to rate my pain. Though I couldn't speak, I held up nine fingers. Later, when I started feeling better, the nurse came in and called me a fighter. "You know how I know?" she said. "You called a ten a nine." But that wasn't the truth. I didn't call it a nine because I was brave. The reason I called it a nine was because I was saving my ten. And this was it... This was the great and terrible ten.

  • [first lines]

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories. On the one hand, you can sugarcoat it the way they do in movies and romance novels, where beautiful people learn beautiful lessons, where nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with an apology and a Peter Gabriel song. I like that version as much as the next girl, believe me. It's just not the truth. This is the truth. Sorry.