A Celebration of All that is Wrong with Hollywood

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2018)

After reading some of the recent reviews and getting the screener for SAG considerations I was looking forward to watching this "Cinematic Classic". Now, after having watched it, I honestly say, I couldn't fast forward through this "Classic" fast enough.
Sure, it contained some beautiful scenery but that was the only thing I found compelling at all and the only reason it gets 1 star from me. Regardless of how well the book was adapted, the "celebration" of youthful romance and finding who a person really is totally lost when you understand what takes place on the screen is a celebration of condoned pedophilia and statutory rape. Sex with a minor is ILLEGAL, immoral and if approved by parents is most sickening. It was overtly paying homage to a culture in the Entertainment industry that is, as I write this, being decimated by scandal after scandal of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Even cinematically it was poorly executed. There were multiple continuity errors, dialogue that was hard to hear, subtitles that were difficult to read due to the color of the background and jumpy editing.
Please save your time and watch something else.