Movie Review: The Fault In Our Stars

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The fault in our Stars The movie The Fault in our Stars shows the reality of how teenagers that have terminal cancer live differently from other teenagers of their same age that are healthy in terms of cancer. In this movie, the two main characters are Augustus and Hazel; they are two teenagers about 17 years old that have terminal cancer. They cannot escape from their illness, but they can turn it into a positive experience. Death is not a preoccupation to them because even though time is limited for them, they are strong and have a desire to enjoy every moment of their life. This is a good movie to watch because it is very emotional, with efficacious and positive messages, hard truths and true love. Generally speaking this movie is called …show more content…

Augustus decides to use his wish from a foundation, and he takes Hazel along with her mom to Amsterdam. This is an amazing opportunity for Hazel Grace because she will have the opportunity to ask the author how the story ends. Hazel and Augustus have dinner together at a fancy restaurant. They have a great time during this trip, but the author is not what they expected him to be like. The Author is an alcoholic man. He tries to avoid pain by drinking instead of dealing with his issue; he wants to forget about the loss of his daughter because she also died young of cancer. Evidently the author suffered, and the loss of his daughter was something that affected him greatly. This part of the movie shows how parents suffer when they lose someone they truly love and how difficult it is to deal with something like this. Without reservation anyone that has the chance to be with the people they love should be grateful for having them by their …show more content…

For Hazel and Augustus, love is more meaningful than it might be to other teenagers of their same age. After the trip, Augustus is diagnosed with cancer all over his body; he does not tell Hazel because he wants her to be happy and not to worry about him. It was during the night when Augustus called Hazel and told her that he was feeling so much pain and that his entire body had cancer. Although Hazel had more probability to die, Augustus’ cancer moved fast infecting his entire body and caused his death. Hazel starts to feel depressed because even though Augustus and her didn’t have much time together, it felt like they did because they enjoyed every moment and they did not let their illness affect them. Besides cancer they both were grateful for every moment they spent together and even though their time was limited they appreciated their little infinity. Hazel was a strong lady. She was able to find what love was and she had the opportunity to enjoy of an amazing trip in Amsterdam. Hazel was struggling at the beginning because she knew that she was going to die any day and her parents were going to be the ones suffering. She realized that her parents won’t die with her, and she did not let that be a reason to stop being happy. Throughout this movie Hazel and Augustus are the two main characters to show that a disease should not be a

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