Viva La Vida

I was skeptical reading the short summary, that this would be a 5 min medical story followed by 2 hours of sappy love story. Gladly, I was positively surprised.

The movie never takes a break from showing how medical issues dictate the main girl's life, the same way how the chronically ill never get a break from their medical issues. It shows her and others around her break down, their families fall apart, their friends become distant, and their health become worse.

The two sick&dying young couple story, consisting of the strong girl and goofy entertaining guy, could quickly deteriorate to low quality tragedy bait, but ultimately doesn't and stays mature throughout.

This story is everything that The Fault in Our Stars tried to be but couldn't. 9/10.