"You have to admire the brutal efficiency in this emotional teen movie, based on the colossal young adult bestseller by John Green, which for the most part enforces the silver ring of abstinence with cancer. You have to concede the laser-guided accuracy and psychotic vehemence with which it goes for the tear duct."
Although, due to the age rating of our film, we cannot be brutally honest about the reality of cancer, the sudden revelation of her illness at the end of our short film is relatively shocking for the reader.
"Hazel is obsessed with a novel called An Imperial Affliction with a bafflingly abrupt ending, all about a girl dying of cancer, written by a reclusive author called Peter van Houten. Impulsive, entrancing Gus whisks her and her mom off to Amsterdam to meet her hero, and it is a journey that is to bring their relationship to a crisis."
This is TFIOS equivalent of our journey to the sweetshop. The fact that they are determined to travel this far, despite their situation, due to what it means to Hazel mirrors the fact that the little girl travels all the way to the chocolate shop as she fully believes that they will cure her sister. Also, in a similar way, like how at the end of their journey Gus admits her has cancer, when the younger sister returns from her journey, thats when the audience will find out that our character has cancer/
"Now, there may be people who can witness a halfway competent dramatic representation of the death of children from cancer without choking up. I am not among them – and it was the same before I became a parent."
Due to the fact that our film isn't as brutally honest as TFIOS, our film might not be as upsetting to watch, however, our characters are younger and their situation is more realistic and so could be more realistic to the audience.
"Gus is way cute, and his lifestyle, like Hazel's, does not appear to be modified in any appreciable way by his illness. They are both extremely comfortably off, and Gus's bedroom is like a starter man-cave for a wealthy and obnoxious young man – so ostentatious, in fact, that I assumed some learning experience, some comeuppance, was coming his way."
This is also how our characters will be portrayed in our short film, as, the more normality which surrounds the family/characters, the more shocking it will be to the audience when we reveal that she has cancer.
The title is taken from Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves, that we are underlings." Perhaps getting cancer was written in the stars for them, but Hazel and Gus realise that it is "in themselves" to do something in response, up to them to make the best of life.
In a similar way, our little girl doesn't let her age get in the way of her quest to get the chocolates she believes will cure her sister. This portrays her to be a determined individual and therefore the audience will admire her character as well as her older sisters who is constantly battling the cancer.
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