It's existentially burdened but also cheerfully in the moment, concerned with the biggest of questions but also (perhaps mostly) with the here and now. As a star-crossed teenage love story, it's neither too cynical nor too sappy. It's a tone that defines the movie generally. The scene is a tearjerker but also breezy and funny, carrying both the horror of "oblivion" (as one character refers to it) and the ecstasy of life in one full heart. Life is not as they wished it would be-but it is what it is. One is blind, one's in a wheelchair, and one has an oxygen tank.Įach is keenly aware of their finitude and the reality of death. Near the end of The Fault in Our Stars there's a scene in a church where three teenage "cancer kids" gather to perform a fake funeral, delivering eulogies for one another.
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