To give too much of the story away would ruin the experience, similarly giving you just little titbits would also influence your expectations greatly. Mainly because 'Paper Towns' seems to be evoking genre specific technique in scenes that amplify the scene but do nothing to firmly place in its actual genre. The film could be a teen comedy come road trip film. It could be a teen romance. Or even a teen adventure with and air of dread. But it manages to encapsulate all into one.
The set-up of the film follows an air of romance as we dive into Quentin's (Nat Wolff) unexpressed love for the literal girl next door, Margo (Cara Delevinge) who turns out to be anything but the girl next door. And Act I cumulates with an explosively romantic race around town.
But where the feeling or tone of Act I ends, Act II does not pick up from. It slowly lulls the viewer down from the romantic high into a sense of despair - was it all a dream? Then a sense of dread – Has something horrible happened? And takes a darker turn – drugs and prostitution, perhaps? And with this a mystery starts to build around all these questions.
Act III does what its predecessor did and takes the viewer in a totally new direction. Adding more slapstick, more comedy, some road trip clichés and a few feel good "we're all getting along" moments along the road to discovery.
'Paper Towns' has a superb soundtrack. In fact the movie starts of with a song so awesome I wanted to Shazam that immediately. But it quickly changes into something more reminiscent of a 90's teen flick, which at first I was unhappy about the change from awesome to mediocre but on closer inspection it only amplified the films angle of playing with different genres and our perceptions of those genres.
At the heart of it 'Paper Town' is pumping red. It is so fresh and original with compelling young actors to take you all the way to the end. The road trip might be the most boring part of the film but the ending is so light hearted with real depth. It's a thoroughly enjoyable family film for families with teens.
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The set-up of the film follows an air of romance as we dive into Quentin's (Nat Wolff) unexpressed love for the literal girl next door, Margo (Cara Delevinge) who turns out to be anything but the girl next door. And Act I cumulates with an explosively romantic race around town.
But where the feeling or tone of Act I ends, Act II does not pick up from. It slowly lulls the viewer down from the romantic high into a sense of despair - was it all a dream? Then a sense of dread – Has something horrible happened? And takes a darker turn – drugs and prostitution, perhaps? And with this a mystery starts to build around all these questions.
Act III does what its predecessor did and takes the viewer in a totally new direction. Adding more slapstick, more comedy, some road trip clichés and a few feel good "we're all getting along" moments along the road to discovery.
'Paper Towns' has a superb soundtrack. In fact the movie starts of with a song so awesome I wanted to Shazam that immediately. But it quickly changes into something more reminiscent of a 90's teen flick, which at first I was unhappy about the change from awesome to mediocre but on closer inspection it only amplified the films angle of playing with different genres and our perceptions of those genres.
At the heart of it 'Paper Town' is pumping red. It is so fresh and original with compelling young actors to take you all the way to the end. The road trip might be the most boring part of the film but the ending is so light hearted with real depth. It's a thoroughly enjoyable family film for families with teens.
Agree, or not, check out keepingitreel.com