To Fault the Stars

In society today we can often be caught up in the trend that is death. I had recently read a rant on Facebook where someone had ardently listed why she wasn't going to see the new movie The Fault In Our Stars. She said that she, "didn't want to go see something that I know would make me cry. I like to accidently cry-" She continued to make some other comments about how she didn't want to see something for the sake of crying, etc.

I understood. I mean, I love movies that make me cry, a few I've gone and seen that I know would make me cry, but I agree. When you can see a movie, not knowing much about it, and it moves you to tears against your will; that is movie magic.  That is the experience every movie-goer wants. The inevitable emotion that is so unexpected you're not sure what to do with it. Yet, I can't say don't go see a movie you know will make you cry.

A great example, for me, is probably the first time I had actually cried in a theatre. I was about ten, and had gone to see the new movie Flicka that had come out. No spoilers, but I was in tears. It was when I came to the realization that making you cry isn't always a movie's objective, they can make you feel other emotions as well, but the accidental feelings that every director hopes you experience are the best. It can be for anything as well. Not every person cries at the same scene, some may not cry at all, but to have your heartstrings tugged, to actually care about the characters, that's what they're going for.

So, I guess that's what I'm trying to say. I haven't looked up much about The Fault In Our Stars, I'm don't even know if John Green can actually write. Honestly, I don't. Yet, I agree. A book that you know is depressing (two kids with cancer, what are the odds?) why would you read it? Then it hit me.

It wasn't about who died, who had sex, who never got to see tomorrow. No, it was about love, in all of its forms.

Our society may be death, but we are so hopelessly obsessed with love.

What we lack, we yearn for. Most of the time we see a fictional couple and we don't even want to see them sleep together. We crave the simplicity of the relationship in the purest of forms.

Are they going to peck each other on the cheek when he goes to work? Does she make him coffee in the morning?  What does she do when he has nightmares? Who walks the dog? Do they even have a dog? How does she look on an average Saturday? Does he often hug her from behind and kiss her on the head? How does he smile at her?

We yearn for those simple acts of love that speak millions in themselves. OTP (One True Pairing) Is common terminology in the nerd world. It's heartbreaking. We lack love so profoundly that we fall in love with the love between two people. We wish them the best. We cry with them. We root for them. We get frustrated when they're broken apart for a time. We don't really care how it comes, we want love. We lack it so profoundly that we crave it to the level that we are beginning to recognize the love in pain and suffering.

It truly is the most flabbergasting thing to me. We're not even promoting pro-creation, we just want to see two people happy, and together.



So, no, I haven't seen the Fault In Our Stars, and I don't really plan to. Can't say I can recommend it either. What I can say is that don't fault a movie for its tears, fault it for its immorality.

With love,

Gwen