The Fault in Our Stars {Movie Review}

SYNOPSIS

Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them – and us – on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, based upon the number-one bestselling novel by John Green, explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love. (C) Fox


VERDICT

I read the book sometime last year and was excited to see the movie even though I knew it would launch a thousand tears. It did not disappoint.

Shailene Woodly and Ansel Elgort are perfectly cast as the star-crossed lovers. Especially Augustus… you can’t help but fall for his charmingly disarming grin. They have such wonderful chemistry that while they flirt with each other, you forget for a while that you are not watching a typical feel good rom com.

Oh yes, the truth is that this film will break your heart. But you wouldn’t mind. It would be a privilege to have your heart broken by them.

Ratings: IMDB: 8.5, Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8

TRIVIA

The title is a variation on a quote from Act I, Scene II of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Shailene Woodley wrote impassioned letters to author John Green and director Josh Boone. “If I’m passionate about something, I’ll do everything I can to try to be a part of it,” Woodley asserts. Although Green didn’t initially picture Woodley for the part, he “was blown away” when she read for him. “We were all crying. It was actually sort of bad,” he laughs. “But it was hers from that moment on.”

In Divergent (2014), Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play brother and sister, while in this movie, they play boyfriend and girlfriend.

I think everyone would have seen the movie by now because it was shown late in Singapore, but just in case…

SPOILERS UP AHEAD!

FAVORITE QUOTES

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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.

Oh I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

Maybe “okay” will be our “always.”

I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, then all at once.

Do you know what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne? He called out to his fellow monks, ‘Come quickly: I am tasting the stars.’

I am not a mathematician, but I know this. There is an infinite between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that.
There are days, many days of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got.
But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You have me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.