This is one of those movies where towards the end I realized it had to have been a book, and that book was probably pretty good and made a lot more sense. What happened here was a nightmare.
It was painful to watch Lily stumbling around and sulking for minutes that felt like hours. She's also somehow navigating parkour-level hiding places while shouting orders and spewing venom at this poor, nice guy. She was borderline emotionally abusing him.
The 2 stars is for his evolved but flawed character and his performance as a teen deeply in love for the first time, and highly evolved, actually, for a boy his age. She is a nightmare. Also, let's check a couple of facts:
1. She has/had no friends who care about her and her mom shows up once, then flees like she robbed the place. No explanation. Oopsie poopsie?
2. This tragic event happened in their town but neither he nor anybody else seemed to know or tell him what was up.
3. She lives with her dead boyfriends parents who send this other boy right up to her room alone.
4. She is allowed to snap at and insult teachers who just take it.
5. She had a wedding dress and was going to marry him...while still in high school? On graduation day? And they were friends since they were kids, then romantically involved? Okey dokey.
6. No therapists or guidance counselors ever intervene when she is clearly spiraling to the point where she's calling him by a dead guy's name.
So many times it attempts to touch at something greater and almost does, but totally falls through a hole in the script.
It was painful to watch Lily stumbling around and sulking for minutes that felt like hours. She's also somehow navigating parkour-level hiding places while shouting orders and spewing venom at this poor, nice guy. She was borderline emotionally abusing him.
The 2 stars is for his evolved but flawed character and his performance as a teen deeply in love for the first time, and highly evolved, actually, for a boy his age. She is a nightmare. Also, let's check a couple of facts:
1. She has/had no friends who care about her and her mom shows up once, then flees like she robbed the place. No explanation. Oopsie poopsie?
2. This tragic event happened in their town but neither he nor anybody else seemed to know or tell him what was up.
3. She lives with her dead boyfriends parents who send this other boy right up to her room alone.
4. She is allowed to snap at and insult teachers who just take it.
5. She had a wedding dress and was going to marry him...while still in high school? On graduation day? And they were friends since they were kids, then romantically involved? Okey dokey.
6. No therapists or guidance counselors ever intervene when she is clearly spiraling to the point where she's calling him by a dead guy's name.
So many times it attempts to touch at something greater and almost does, but totally falls through a hole in the script.