Proposal 9/25

For my essay I have chosen to write about the movie The Fault in Our Stars. This movie came out in early June of 2014 and was based off of a bestselling young adult book. The Fault in Our Stars is about a girl named Hazel with cancer. She’s young, cynical, and broken, afraid of connecting with others for fear she’ll hurt them in the end too. She keeps this up until Augustus Waters is able to break through the barriers that she put up around herself. Augustus is now cancer free, but understands the pain and struggle that Hazel feels. The story revolves around their relationship as it starts as friendship and turns into something more. But this is not meant to just be some cheesy teenage romance, it’s about the brevity of life, the struggles of cancer, and love.

This movie did very well this summer in the box office and just recently came out on DVD as well. This movie did have mixed reviews, much due to the intended audience. Some people were unable to look past the teenaged romance aspects, but those who did were able to get so much more out of the plot. Something noted in negative reviews was that the filming was awkward at times. This is something that I noticed myself when watching the movie, and it did affect my viewing of the movie to a degree, but other aspects such as the acting and script made up for the filming aspects. Some positive reviews state that while the script may lack in places or simply come out awkward in the movie (screenwriters attempted to keep the movie as true to the book as possible) while they didn’t in the book, but the phenomenal acting made up for it.