I couldn't get enough of this movie. It's a sad one ofc, as it's about cancer. But it has humor in it and a bit of comedy. A perfect teen romantic movie. I just smiled the whole time watching this. Both characters are so cute and great. Surprisingly, it's not sad. They made the sadness became happy tears, which are great.

Charming is the word I could use to describe the effect this movie had on me. It felt so natural and real. I was sucked into that world so easily in a way that I forgot that the two love interests were acting. Mia Wasikowska has managed to worm herself into the top 10 of my favorite actresses & I have only seen 5 movies that she has been in. That's some incredible talent right there. The score of this movie is also fantastic. Just by telling you that it opens up with a Beatles song tells you a lot about it. One of my favorite musicians Sufjan Stevens' songs also feature in this movie. This adds to the natural feeling of the movie as you do not feel as if it's trying to force you into feeling emotions you don't feel. It's subtle that way. The most impressive thing was how they managed to make a sad storyline so beautiful and not a typical sob story. I was smiling at the end and not crying like I had expected. You learn about the characters and understand how this story will end pretty early on in the movie. "It's a story about a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals." Most of the time this would ruin the story for me and turn it into a snooze-fest. However, I did not even once feel that way with this movie. I fell in love Mia's character so easily. The wardrobe she had was perfect for the character of Annie. Her love interest Enoch played by Henry Hopper was great. I am going to watch every movie he appears in from now on because I was impressed. This movie had the formula of a typical romantic drama but could stand on its own, with its charm and adorableness of the characters. I would recommend this to anyone who likes cutesy love stories.

"We have so little time to say the things we mean."-Enoch BraeEver since I saw the film's poster, I made a promise to myself to see this film, and finally promise kept. This poster caught my interest because of the colors used and how it looks different with other poster. Usually lead characters in poster have those "practice poses" but this has a natural feel in it. It seems that I'm paying too much attention with the film advertisements nowadays, I just can't help it, because it's one of the factor that will always arouse people's interest. And aside from that I'm a follower of Mia Wasikowska, giving me enough reason to watch this film plus I was anticipating for the performance of Ryo Kase, who looks younger than ever in his role.( I never thought that he has a Hollywood debut! He looked really good in Hachimitsu to Clover, but he looks way better here!)Story-wise(spoiler alert!), even though the plot is nothing new but another usual death of the ill female lead and the positive change it will bring with the rebel male lead, I still commend the writer for being able to create a different angle out of the overused plot. I also like how they used an indirect scene with a solid meaning to conclude the story, it's as if leaving us the option to think of what happens next after the last scene.I'm also deeply impressed with the woody tone of the film that they've used, giving a classic silent film vibe which suits the story and the characters. The cinematography is beyond average though music scoring is quite average, but still the total package is alright, it's decent.

The movie in itself is an often viewed topic, but as they say... it doesn't matter that we had have seen the same topic over and over again, it's about how it is done. In my opinion the main characters were equally important and that gives a great balance. The soundtrack is beautiful and those scenes with little details are just perfect, although I didn't feel an authentic pain in the film and that excessive positivism made me mad almost the entire movie. The conflicts were pretty simple and the reactions were too complicated for the conflict. It's a good movie, above the average because it has those pretty details and that carefree puberty that is what is missing in other movies dealing with this topic and -Contradicting my first point of view- that excess if positive attitude made that those pretty details authentic and jovial.In my humble opinion.