Lidewij, Play Bomfalleralla

Rating: 5/10 (15 March 2015)

First of all, I'm sorry I watched it pretty late.
I don't think most of us have had the heart, and the courage, to see what this really was. No, this was not an over-sentimental, full-of-tears-and-sadness drama. It wasn't even a pure insight into the lives of the afflicted. It wasn't even an adaptation of Green's novel. It was only the pinching, romantic and delicate imagery I've always had from listening to Wait (M83) and its Kygo remix. By the way I'm not adulterating my every-day's empirical observations and imaginations for the sake of this review. Check my SoundCloud account if you've any suspicions. For those of you who actually did, see? I don't lie. Neither does my review.
So that's the bottom-line: If Wait wasn't in the movie, this might have been six star movie for me. But because Wait is used, and in the exact places as it should have been, I'll give a maximum, not that anybody gives a cuss, but then see, the movie isn't made for getting cusses. It's made for "assimilators" (not a word) like me, who desperately long for content that actually is an honest-to-god discernment of what some lives may be like, and those lives may not be notably similar. I mean I don't have cancer, but something relatable to it.
By the way Willem Dafoe was the best of all of them. The scene where he is first shown is absolutely beautiful, and really adds to the "8" I've given. His character of Gus Van Houden could not have been exploited the way Willem did. I mean the guy's a natural. He looked a sociopath, and intellectually overdosed freak. And when he said, "Lidewij, play Bomfalleralla," ah man, I was practically hoping with the song that followed. The production is of course by Alfasy & Filthy, but its usage here in Th Fault in Our Stars provided it the vigor and intensity. Gus Van Houden was a total mess, and that messiness is what I like. Irregular is the new regular.
John Green's work reached its visualization, and I am not disappointed. It was good, and stick-able because of its eventual sentimentalism, which is the case with most viewers. But with that, I think Green's original work had much more maturity, grip with situation, and smoothness. Everything was too amateurish in the movie, and looked more like a college-typo. Anyways, worked for me; I rarely look for beyond-the-general-standard product when it comes to romance.