Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

What a beautiful film.

It touches on something so pure and real about life as a teenager, and in a way that is interesting, provoking. There were times when certain camera angles surprised me in their sheer creativeness that I would let out a physical "wow" or "that's so cool". Yeah I know, kind of a cheesy way to describe an infinitely raw film, but that's my writing for you.

The acting is seamless, effortless. but it's the script that really got to me. It was so real and yet so heartbreaking. The final shots where Greg (Thomas Mann) is moving around Rachel's (Olivia Cooke) room is both heartbreaking and clever at the same time. Earl (RJ Cyler) is so believable. all of them are. there was never a moment where I appreciated their 'good acting' because it got to the stage where I forgot that they were even acting. It wasn't a fuzzed out version of what a reality of a teenager with cancer would be like, unlike TFIOS (which is undeniably the most unrealistic film of our generation). They fight, they cry, it's refreshingly not about some duddy romance.

It's real.

In a sentence: This film does something new, and I greatly appreciate the filmmakers for doing that.