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There are very few things I hate more than my research paper, and one of those things is the movie called Five Feet Apart.
When I first saw this trailer, I was at the movie's with my dad. As soon as the character in the movie said, "This is my life with Cystic Fibrosis", my dad and I shot uncomfortable looks at each other, and I physically recoiled. I had the same reaction to it as I do when I see someone take a huge bite out of an ice cream bar. I could feel myself blushing and cringing so hard, and I sunk down in my seat until I was basically laying down. I quickly pushed myself back up though, because this wasn't biology class, and there was no teacher giving me the look, for the entire class to see. For once, as long as I acted natural, no one else around me would think twice about me.
Truth is, Five Feet Apart is trash, and the only reason it's so popular is the same reason The Fault in Our Stars and The Theory of Everything were both so popular. Romance movies with hot actors/actresses really sell, especially if they're tragic romances. And they seem especially popular if they misrepresent what it's actually like. I'm pretty sure Stephen Hawking's wife ripped The Theory of Everything to shreds for being grossly inaccurate in a lot of ways, and from the looks of things, Five Feet Apart is gonna grossly misrepresent CF as well. So, I'm gonna do y'all a favor and dissect everything that's wrong with Five Feet Apart that I saw from one trailer, as well as talk briefly about what it's really like living with CF. If you don't like disgustingly graphic descriptions of nasty things and extremely politically incorrect humor, don't read this.
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