I watched this movie thinking "okay, this is one of those where a pure innocent girl who is too good for this world dies due to a chronic illness that has a pretty high life expectancy". I was kinda annoyed that in every of these movies the only dramatic ending they could come up with was death of the "sick girl" and how everyone else reacted to it. It never was about THE "sick girl. She was just an object that leaded to character revelation. You always knew what was coming. (There are exceptions to this rule, but I saw so many of these movies that this is the tendence that I see).
This movie is different. The girl did not die. She had cystic fibrosis and it ends with his boyfriend who finds an experimental treatment to save her. You might say it is fiction, yes that's the point. If it is fiction you can write anything to add hope to your piece. Until there is life there is hope - S. H.
Not everyone with a chronic illness dies, not everyone with stage 4 cancer dies. Many do, many do not. I think that there is room for both types of movies and they could be equally interesting. I really feel like that today's world has its knowledge about cancer and other chronic illnesses from such movies or youtube. And think that if you have a chronic illness you are bedbound and cannot have a normal life unless you "break the rules" and "risk your life". This is due to all these "sick girl" movies (and poor education) that perpetuate the idea that 1. Sick people a bedbound, 2. They die in their teens. Yes this happens, but it is not the tendence. Thank you for reading my rant. Give it a watch, it is such a great movie with on point music.
This movie is different. The girl did not die. She had cystic fibrosis and it ends with his boyfriend who finds an experimental treatment to save her. You might say it is fiction, yes that's the point. If it is fiction you can write anything to add hope to your piece. Until there is life there is hope - S. H.
Not everyone with a chronic illness dies, not everyone with stage 4 cancer dies. Many do, many do not. I think that there is room for both types of movies and they could be equally interesting. I really feel like that today's world has its knowledge about cancer and other chronic illnesses from such movies or youtube. And think that if you have a chronic illness you are bedbound and cannot have a normal life unless you "break the rules" and "risk your life". This is due to all these "sick girl" movies (and poor education) that perpetuate the idea that 1. Sick people a bedbound, 2. They die in their teens. Yes this happens, but it is not the tendence. Thank you for reading my rant. Give it a watch, it is such a great movie with on point music.
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