for a couple reasonable relatable reasons; mainly two reasons to be precise: The amount of days that pass within the film, and..... Augustus.
How quickly the events unfold in the film is quite disturbing, I'm not going to elaborate more on why I feel this way, one can understand quite well after watching the film where this view spawns from. And then there's Augustus..... Second only to Mr. Grey with his phenomenal charisma, care and ambition (who knows, Christian Grey was adopted, maybe him and Augustus are related in some movie universe sharing ting🤔).
Characters like Augustus really tick me off, their charisma and charm could get them far better girls than the low-self esteem "beaut" they way too often fall in love with (which, in the real world, guys like them would only use for a limited time (If any offence is taken, comment below so I can elaborate)).
Truly, before re-watching it, I even decided to believe Augustus had more sinister plans before discovering he had cancer again, just to make the movie that much better in my head (I still like my theory *shout-out to Peter Israel*). But all these "reasonable relatable reasons" soon vanished after hearing a statement made by Peter Van Houten while he played his favourite song, a Swedish hip-hop track called Bomfalleralla(Link to the song: Bomfalleralla), while playing the song he stated: "Who the hell speaks Swedish? The important thing is not what nonsense the voices are saying but what the voices are feeling!" as he continues to enjoy his calm and soothing Bomfalleralla at the expense of Augustus and Hazel, who, at the time, were too annoyed and confused to even give his wise words a listen.
See I'm a person that loves twists, an Inception type of guy (A "Luke I am your father" type of guy). I love seeing well orchestrated art, the type that isn't just linear, where the later scenes are just as important to understanding the earlier scenes as the earlier scenes are to grasping the later ones. I think Bomfallerala was a good (maybe cover up) way of getting viewers to ignore the issues such as Augustus' apparent flawlessness and the time span in which the whole events take place (Though most viewers were probably engulfed by "what the voices were feeling"). It asks the question does it matter if the story-line isn't so fleashed out? Does it matter if the motive isn't so clear to us as long as we like the work?
May be that short statement holds a lot of truth in our modern world, from music like Lil Pump's "Flex Like Oou" to art like "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (Links: Flex like Oou , TPIODITMOSL). We have catchy art that anyone can interpret how ever they choose (Like all modern art paintings of a single dot and a clever name😒). To some this is a bad thing, but truly, is it such a bad thing? After all does it matter "what the voices are saying"? Maybe Van Houten's statement is the equivalent to a single dot painting, and I'm just that critic that gives it more meaning, looking at every small detail with my fancy monocle of Apophenia. I don't know... All I can say is that The Fault In Our Stars was really touching and Flex Like Oou is catchy as hell.
✅✔😉 sad truth
ReplyDeleteI don't feel it's so sad tbh.
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