“I’m willing to sacrifice everything just to live one perfect day.”– Madeline Whittier
An adaption of a gloriously aesthetic book; Everything, Everything, is all that you will desire to watch on a pleasant evening curled up on your couch with a bowl of nachos and a fellow romantic.
Based on the 2015 YA novel written by Nicola Yoon, the film stars Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson and was released on May 19th, 2017.
Centred around a 17 year old girl who has never ever stepped out of her house, the approach that director Stella Meghie uses, to show us Madeline Whittier’s perspective of things is refreshing.
Maddy suffers from a condition that prevents her from leaving her house or interacting with others.
The only people she’s ever known all her life are her mother, Pauline, a physician who takes care of her along with the help of Carla, Maddy’s nurse, who’s worked for them for 15 years.
When Olly moves in next door, all he wants to do is get to know Maddy. And once they do begin to interact and grow closer, Maddy begins to question whether the way she lives is even living, in the first place.
Would sacrificing everything for love, for one chance to live as freely as she ever could, worth risking her life? Everything she’s ever known?
Will she survive?
These are the questions that the film addresses as the plot weaves itself from screen to screen.
J. Mills Goodloe did a good job with the screenplay and did not stray too far from the book.
The fact that this entire film is wrapped up neatly but without a bow just as Yoon did so, shows that the editing by Nancy Richardson deserves praise.
I would strongly suggest to read the book first and then watch the film, for it is not one of those films that navigates away from the book, but one that paints the colours onto the canvas of the novel dotted by Yoon. To see the colours, you need the outline first.
So, go give the book a try. And then enjoy this film.
It is a YA category film, but it does not disappoint in depicting exactly what it’s point was. And that is exactly what a film is supposed to do in the first place.
This is for all those teenagers who believe that love does not come conveniently in bubble wrap but it is earned through genuine risk, vulnerability and a little fate.
Everything, Everything will make you clutch your heart when you wonder whether Maddy will survive or not. You’ll just have to read the book or watch the film to reduce that heartache.
No shortcuts to that one.
[Review by: Sreya K.]
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