The Fault In Our Stars
Book / Movie review
So this one is about the book that went viral among the
youngsters of India, the movie that made a hit on the cinemas – The Fault in
Our Stars.
Some people
might mistake this John Green book as a book about cancer, but it’s surely not
one. Cancer is not what it depicts, it’s the emotion, the will to live, to
love, and to long for something that you really want or need.
The
story starts quite casually, when two people meet at the ‘heart of the lord’
where a few kind people guide other people to fight cancer. As they meet and
fall in love, the story revolves around other distinct yet interesting
characters, out of which, one is Peter Van Houten. He’s the writer of that
amazing book that the protagonist, Hazel Grace, can relate to. Hazel needs so
many answers about his book where the story about many characters is left
unsaid. It’s so natural how she wants to know about some imaginary characters
of a fictional book and is ready to even fly to Amsterdam with lungs that suck!
And by natural I mean, that we all do!
Hazel Grace
and Augustus Waters are both attacked by cancer but whenever one is low, the
significant other is always there to lend a helping hand.
They
together help their just-gone-blind friend, Isaac, take revenge from a girl he
cared about, by egging her car!
The book is
just so perfect for a modern love story, it’s all just like real life! When you
read it, you’ll never predict what’s gonna happen next. It’s THAT unpredictable!
~~For those
who haven’t read it or seen the movie or heard from a friend about it yet, the
ending is an eye opener !!~~
To be honest,
when I myself was reading this book, I had tears in my eyes towards the end. It’s
actually that much full of emotion. Cancer is just an element that the writer
chose to display the message that disease can’t win over love, nor can death.
Hazel denied this fact but Augustus later made her realise that it’s love over
everything for them. In the end, maybe things go a little awry, but still, they
didn’t change, nothing between them changed.
The title
just wants to say (according to me), that it’s not death or disease or
misunderstandings that came between our love, maybe it’s the fault in out stars
that did.
If we talk
about the movie, it’s just the perfect cast. All the people in the movie are
exactly what I imagined them to be. To add to the beauty, so many renowned
singers have contributed to make the musical part a huge hit, and they have
surely succeeded ! Ed Sheeran, Birdy, onerepublic, and who not has contributed
for this movie. Thank you all for making it even more interesting !
It’s well
casted and the scenarios are very well depicted, hardly leaving out any part
from the book. But as always, the book is better than the movie!
Over all, the
book/movie is just really interesting, realistic, and an eye opener. I’d rate
it 10 on 10 so it’s obviously a MUST READ.
Happy reading (or watching) guys!
