Overhyped

Rating: 4/10 (23 September 2018)

A lot if people say this film is "beautiful" and "tragic". To me the whole thing just feels like a very forced and heavy handed attempt to make the audience sad, while putting as little effort as possible into writing a good plot and compelling characters. It's easy to make us cry by forcing us to watch dying children, but that isn't good story-telling, it's just emotional manipulation.
I'm reminded if that episode of friends where Ross writes a speech that makes everyone cry, and Monica tries to do the same thing, but instead of actually trying to write something beautiful and touching she just talks about the dead family dog in a really forced attempt to move people.