![]() ![]() No means no, buddy!Įlgort struggles mightily with the character as written, who’s apparently a less complicated and coherent creation than in John Green’s book, and the third-act revelation that Gus’ cancer has returned with a vengeance casts his eerily peppy demeanor in a new light, turning what’s seemed like a cross between adolescent fantasy and long-con pickup artistry into a defense mechanism. “Your trying to keep your distance from me in no way lessens my affection for you,” he firmly states as she wrestles with her own mortality. There are moments where Hazel snaps out of hypnosis to resist how easy it all feels, when “The Fault in Our Stars” might own its declaration of being true to life, but Gus won’t allow for wiggle room. She’s smitten with Gus, sure, but this love connection isn’t what the Hazel at the beginning of the movie yearned for. She resists him for much of the movie, and when they finally lock lips - after Hazel struggles to climb the stairs at Anne Frank’s house - there’s a weird sense of guilt lingering in the air. ![]() There’s a sense that Hazel doesn’t totally buy the Manic Cancer Metaphor Boy act, that maybe she’ll shake her pursuer and exist somewhere between fantasy and harsh reality. ![]()
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