The combination of love and grief, happiness and fear creates a story that actually feels realistic. You see Hazel struggling to breathe doing simple tasks such as climbing up and down stairs, followed by a romantic moment between her and Augustus. The ability to balance these two pieces is what makes this movie so engaging. The movie showcases a contrast between the beginning of a new love and the end of a life. Upon meeting, the two embark on an epic love story within their limited amount of time. After being convinced by her parents to attend a cancer support group, Hazel meets Augustus, a cancer survivor who lost his leg during his fight. Hazel goes through daily life of college courses and reality TV shows knowing that she has a limited amount of time left to live. A miracle medicine has allowed her to extend her life by a few years, but it is a treatment, not a cure.

Hazel is diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer and almost died when she at the age of 13. The supporting cast (Nat Wolff, Laura Dern and Sam Trammell) is excellent as well. Woodley is joined by up and coming Ansel Elgort who plays the charming and lovably arrogant Augustus Waters, Hazel’s love interest. She showcases great range, balancing immense grief with average teenage emotions. Woodley captures the witty and pragmatic attitude of her character perfectly. I’m a little late to jump on the Woodley train as I have only seen her in The Secret Life of an American Teenager (not the best show acting-wise). I was originally hesitant about this casting. Shailene Woodley stars as the main character Hazel Grace Lancaster. Of course, the movie does not include every detail, scene and character, but the adaption has retained the original integrity and feeling of the novel. The movie even found a way to creatively display the text messages and emails the book used frequently. As a fan of the book myself, I was impressed with the transition from the page to the big screen.

The majority of the key scenes, character development, quotes and philosophical insight that readers love from the book have been included in the movie.

They deal with break-ups, hovering parents, foreign travel and romance all to the backdrop of hospitals, oxygen tubes, prosthetic legs and support groups.įans of the John Green book will not be disappointed by the cinematic adaptation. The story and its characters, however, focus on life rather than death. The trailer says The Fault in Our Stars will “make you feel alive,” which is ironic considering it follows the story of a 17-year-old with terminal cancer.

The fault in our stars movie review