Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

I laughed, I cried a little bit. Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Wonderful movie about high school and friendship. Painful film about change and loss.

When I say I often imagine my life as a movie, THIS is what I mean. This movie feels like the end of summer and loss of innocence or maybe that just because that’s the time frame that I watched it in anyways, I did not expect this movie to wreck the way it did. The performances are so good here and the film is shot remarkably well for a coming of age movie and the soundtrack is amazing!! I have not stop thinking about this movie ever since I watched it!! It’s a time capsule in a sense of the time that it was released and set in and also serves as a reminder that time is precious and you need make good use of it cause you can’t get it back once it’s gone. Time and people are similar in which they are a constant in our lives and that there can be good and bad times but the best ones are the one you remember and the ones that you cherish. This movie made me reflect on my own senior year and much like Greg I shut myself out and isolated myself when I should’ve been more approachable and more inviting but I was in my head the whole time and I regret it and this movie made me realize that I just need to go for things and put myself out there in the world. It’s incredibly sad but also incredibly healing!! Can’t recommend this movie enough!!!!!

9/10 - Such a good film. Perfect balance of comedic and emotional scenes. Great cast, great characters, amazing performances and beautiful story, the score fit so well also. I love the way that they used the narration and time jumps. Most of all I loved the camera work, so good.