In recent years, the young adult genre has become increasingly popular, and the plot literally asks from paper pages on wide cinema screens. Their dialogues are simple and not fanciful, the hero is averaged, and the message itself does not load and does not press with moralizing, at least the idea does not lie on the surface and the reader / viewer guesses how deep it is. And for examples here to go far is not necessary. Maybe this is even a mutually beneficial "exchange", and after the film adaptation the author of the youth novel wakes up again famous. In this plan, “After” Anna Todd is no exception. Another question - how much do they fit together - the film and the book? And is everything that the writer wanted to convey to us — is it embodied on the screen?
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Yes, indeed, “After” in the version of Susan McMartin and Jenny Gage has absorbed all the classic and hitherto flawlessly existing techniques that can lure any teenage rebel romance, which are, by the way, the main characters themselves. And if you look at what kind of audience gathered in the cinema - mostly young couples in love, a group of guys who accidentally wandered in, a crisp and violently commenting storyline, in general, the hall was filled seriously - then the creators' expectations were clearly met.
So, the modest quiet person Tessa Young turns out to be a first-year student at one of the numerous American universities, and she would study perfectly well, but the spirit of rebellion, which had been dozing somewhere deep down, is breaking out. The mother was accustomed to constantly teach and control, and Tessa was literally suffocating herself - this is clearly seen at the very first visit by the student dormitory. And the new neighbor Steph is the very embodiment of her inner rebellious side. Somehow too quickly they came together: clubs, parties, booze, party ... And this seductive Hardin - literally beckons with its mystery and seems to possess some kind of terrible black power. Because of the “exemplary” character of the heroine, Josephine Langford, she somehow didn’t really believe it. Too everything happens quickly - you don’t have time to believe in the purity of Tessa’s feelings and thoughts, as she is already having fun splashing with Hardin in the lake, kissing, sleeping in the same bed, finally gathering, and it is still unknown in whose house. And the point here is not at all in the specifics of the limited time of the film, but in the emphasis of its creators.
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Some have already noticed the idea expressed by Anna Todd in the novel of the same name, and I myself caught it a little differently than the one in the film. Susan McMartin is not new to screenwriting, which cannot be said about Jenny Gage, for whom “After,” in fact, is the first attempt at a wide screen. And this is clearly noticeable by the abundance of clichés and stamps that fill the entire film. Whether it is a library scene and a standoff (although it looks rather ostentatious) with the antagonist Hardin (and is he such an antagonist?), A literary dispute and a neighbor addict, constant parties and a lot of sex ... We are shown what we expect and In this, in my opinion - the main problem of the film. In “After” I did not see the zest (although it is in the book), but there are a lot of platitudes. I saw how the audience anticipated many of the future scenes on the screen with their comments, how some were leaving the hall ... It all comes down to the predictability of the plot, because sometimes you regret that there is no rewind button in the cinema, at least the audience.
In my opinion, in “After” the moment of reincarnation is very important, the idea that everything is not always what it looks like. And this reincarnation is not very noticeable. Yes, our opinion about this rebel has changed several times, but for some reason, it was not at all true that it was not about the main character, from the very beginning. Remember the same Jamie Sullivan from “Hurry to Love” and her Landon Carter - that’s where the images are clearly conveyed. For some reason, analogies with this film immediately came to mind, maybe because of a similar confrontation / reincarnation? “After” film makers only bypassed the Hardin-Landon line by the very edge, although the latter is important in the book. Noah himself - Tessa’s school boy looks no more than an “app.”
One way or another, even knowing that Anna Todd’s book of the same name has sequels - there is no desire at all to wait for a film adaptation. Although their creation is likely only a matter of time.
6 out of 10
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Yes, indeed, “After” in the version of Susan McMartin and Jenny Gage has absorbed all the classic and hitherto flawlessly existing techniques that can lure any teenage rebel romance, which are, by the way, the main characters themselves. And if you look at what kind of audience gathered in the cinema - mostly young couples in love, a group of guys who accidentally wandered in, a crisp and violently commenting storyline, in general, the hall was filled seriously - then the creators' expectations were clearly met.
So, the modest quiet person Tessa Young turns out to be a first-year student at one of the numerous American universities, and she would study perfectly well, but the spirit of rebellion, which had been dozing somewhere deep down, is breaking out. The mother was accustomed to constantly teach and control, and Tessa was literally suffocating herself - this is clearly seen at the very first visit by the student dormitory. And the new neighbor Steph is the very embodiment of her inner rebellious side. Somehow too quickly they came together: clubs, parties, booze, party ... And this seductive Hardin - literally beckons with its mystery and seems to possess some kind of terrible black power. Because of the “exemplary” character of the heroine, Josephine Langford, she somehow didn’t really believe it. Too everything happens quickly - you don’t have time to believe in the purity of Tessa’s feelings and thoughts, as she is already having fun splashing with Hardin in the lake, kissing, sleeping in the same bed, finally gathering, and it is still unknown in whose house. And the point here is not at all in the specifics of the limited time of the film, but in the emphasis of its creators.
Avengers Endgame trailer is here - https://www.123movies.gdn/avengers-endgame-2019-123movies-watch-free/.
Some have already noticed the idea expressed by Anna Todd in the novel of the same name, and I myself caught it a little differently than the one in the film. Susan McMartin is not new to screenwriting, which cannot be said about Jenny Gage, for whom “After,” in fact, is the first attempt at a wide screen. And this is clearly noticeable by the abundance of clichés and stamps that fill the entire film. Whether it is a library scene and a standoff (although it looks rather ostentatious) with the antagonist Hardin (and is he such an antagonist?), A literary dispute and a neighbor addict, constant parties and a lot of sex ... We are shown what we expect and In this, in my opinion - the main problem of the film. In “After” I did not see the zest (although it is in the book), but there are a lot of platitudes. I saw how the audience anticipated many of the future scenes on the screen with their comments, how some were leaving the hall ... It all comes down to the predictability of the plot, because sometimes you regret that there is no rewind button in the cinema, at least the audience.
In my opinion, in “After” the moment of reincarnation is very important, the idea that everything is not always what it looks like. And this reincarnation is not very noticeable. Yes, our opinion about this rebel has changed several times, but for some reason, it was not at all true that it was not about the main character, from the very beginning. Remember the same Jamie Sullivan from “Hurry to Love” and her Landon Carter - that’s where the images are clearly conveyed. For some reason, analogies with this film immediately came to mind, maybe because of a similar confrontation / reincarnation? “After” film makers only bypassed the Hardin-Landon line by the very edge, although the latter is important in the book. Noah himself - Tessa’s school boy looks no more than an “app.”
One way or another, even knowing that Anna Todd’s book of the same name has sequels - there is no desire at all to wait for a film adaptation. Although their creation is likely only a matter of time.
6 out of 10
