Film Analysis: Me, Earl and the dying girl
Youth Magazine – Nicolaj
“Me, Earl and the dying girl” is a highly praised movie by teens and critics worldwide, and has won countless film awards as of lately, like the highly sought after “Sundance Film Festival Audience Award”.
The comedic drama was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rajon and the movie stars Thomas Mann, who plays Greg, RJ Cyler, who plays Earl and Olivia Cooke, who plays the dying girl Rachel. The movie is situated in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and follows Greg through his last couple of months in high school, before going to college. All of a sudden, Greg gets the news, that one of his classmates has been diagnosed with leukemia, and he’s forced by his mother to go to hang …show more content…
Greg even said that he sees Earl, his best friend, as more of a co-worker than he sees him as a friend. In this period of the movie, he doesn’t have any so called friends nor does he have any enemies. It shows that Greg is afraid of taking opportunities, in this case accepting being friends with somebody, and would rather just live on his own without any consequences that would stem from pursuing his opportunities. I also believe that, that is the underlying message of the movie; that you should accept every given opportunity you get, because you may unintentionally pass the opportunity of your lifetime, and spent the rest of your life in regret. As further proof, you can see that he almost passed his opportunity of his lifetime, when he gets to choose if he would like to hang out with Rachel and cheer her up. He said to his mother, that he is busy and doesn’t feel like he would be the best guy to hang out with her and cheer her up, but then his mother forced him into it, because she knows from prior experiences, that this would be a great opportunity for Greg to get to know someone. The mother’s choice of forcing him to hang out with Rachel, would later be the foundation of Greg’s and Rachel’s friendship, which was one of the greatest experiences, but also one of the worst experiences, when Rachel eventually succumb to cancer, that Greg has ever lived through. I believe that the moment when Rachel dies, is where Greg learns a life lesson; that if something needs to go up, then it also needs to go down. What I mean by that is, if something good happens, you aren’t able to distinguish it from the bad, if you have never seen the bad, just like you can’t tell if you see colours, if you can only see the colour blue.
I can with confident say
Youth Magazine – Nicolaj
“Me, Earl and the dying girl” is a highly praised movie by teens and critics worldwide, and has won countless film awards as of lately, like the highly sought after “Sundance Film Festival Audience Award”.
The comedic drama was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rajon and the movie stars Thomas Mann, who plays Greg, RJ Cyler, who plays Earl and Olivia Cooke, who plays the dying girl Rachel. The movie is situated in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and follows Greg through his last couple of months in high school, before going to college. All of a sudden, Greg gets the news, that one of his classmates has been diagnosed with leukemia, and he’s forced by his mother to go to hang …show more content…
Greg even said that he sees Earl, his best friend, as more of a co-worker than he sees him as a friend. In this period of the movie, he doesn’t have any so called friends nor does he have any enemies. It shows that Greg is afraid of taking opportunities, in this case accepting being friends with somebody, and would rather just live on his own without any consequences that would stem from pursuing his opportunities. I also believe that, that is the underlying message of the movie; that you should accept every given opportunity you get, because you may unintentionally pass the opportunity of your lifetime, and spent the rest of your life in regret. As further proof, you can see that he almost passed his opportunity of his lifetime, when he gets to choose if he would like to hang out with Rachel and cheer her up. He said to his mother, that he is busy and doesn’t feel like he would be the best guy to hang out with her and cheer her up, but then his mother forced him into it, because she knows from prior experiences, that this would be a great opportunity for Greg to get to know someone. The mother’s choice of forcing him to hang out with Rachel, would later be the foundation of Greg’s and Rachel’s friendship, which was one of the greatest experiences, but also one of the worst experiences, when Rachel eventually succumb to cancer, that Greg has ever lived through. I believe that the moment when Rachel dies, is where Greg learns a life lesson; that if something needs to go up, then it also needs to go down. What I mean by that is, if something good happens, you aren’t able to distinguish it from the bad, if you have never seen the bad, just like you can’t tell if you see colours, if you can only see the colour blue.
I can with confident say