Everything, Everything
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Directed by:
Stella MeghieScreenplay:
J. Mills GoodloeCinematography:
Igor Jadue-LilloComposer:
Ludwig GöranssonCast:
Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de la Reguera, Taylor Hickson, Dan Payne, Fiona Loewi, Sage Brocklebank, Peter Benson, Françoise Yip (more)Plots(1)
What if you couldn't touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face...or kiss the boy next door? Everything, Everything tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative 18-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance. Gazing through windows and talking only through texts, she and Olly form a deep bond that leads them to risk everything to be together...even if it means losing everything. (Warner Bros. US)
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I correctly guessed the final point after the first fifteen minutes, and then I just waited for it to get there. The fact is that an interesting and highly emotional romantic drama could have arisen from this theme, if it had not been so naive and stupid, and if its main protagonist didn’t behave like a suicidal fool. The dream visualization of an SMS conversation is an interesting move, but very poorly filmed.
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If I look at it with sober eyes, the romantic central plotline is kick-started far too quickly, but in the face of its authenticity, I willingly squint my eyes. The bond between Maddy and Olly contains exactly that head-over-heels infatuation where you don't need to know anything essential about the other person, yet you are unshakably certain that this love is the one. It's everything. Combined with the nostalgic mood and ingeniously filmed virtual dialogues, it simply provides no defense for sentimental individuals.
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