a questionable love story - ***

This MGM produced film is based on a 2015 young adult novel of the same title written by Nicola Yoon.  She's written two books and Everything, everything was her first novel.  The film was directed by a black Canadian film director, Stella Meghie.  She studied screenwriting and this film is her second film but her first mainstream movie, being that her first film, Jean of the Joneses was considered an indie film. 

The film is about a couple of things; it is about a young lady trapped in her house because of some serious illness, who took the risk of dying in order to experience love and the ocean.  It is also about how love can cloud our judgement negatively affecting the people around us and most the ones we love.

This movie started of really nicely, the difficult conflict that it presents made it interesting.  There were some lines in the film that tugs your heartstrings and some motivational ones.  I particularly enjoyed watching the female lead, Amanda Stenberg.  She's a very pretty girl with very expressive eyes.  She played 'fragile' really well and it made it really easy to empathize with her character.

The problem starts when her character, Maddy meets and falls for Olly played by Nick Robinson.  Maddy is an extremely shy girl being someone who has never stepped out of the house since she was a baby and Olly being the new neighbor whose interactions with Maddy are limited due to her illness.  Most of their initial interactions were considered awkward because of  Maddy's emotional limitations and Olly's physical that it did not seem possible for them to fall in love the way they did in the movie.   Nick's Olly failed to develop her relationship with Maddy that his feelings comes off as ambiguous.  Is Maddy really in love with Olly or has she been too trapped inside her house that she falls for the first guy that she meets.  So short in saying the failure of the love story is caused by the questionable integrity of their relationship.