I cried. I cried so much that the packet of tissues I bought with me ran out of… well… tissues. If you have read the book, which is what the movie is based from, you would know why tear-stained cheeks would be the side effect of watching it.

The Fault In Our Stars is about a cancer-stricken teenager named Hazel Grace who found love with Augustus Waters, a cancer sufferer as well as a walking metaphor. It’s a love story that ended with, SPOILER, death, which would bring the story of Romeo & Juliet to its knees. This is a love story that, to quote the book, “gave forever within the numbered days”.

Movies based on a book are quite difficult to make because it could go very well like The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter or it could flop like The Golden Compass. The Fault In Our Stars is thankfully in the category of the former. It was really well done.

It never strays from the book, which is a good move to make. The book had such a great following and diverting (even the slightest) away from the book would turn off the fans. Another reason for not straying away could be because the book itself was already well-written and the author of the book, John Green, is highly involved in the filming of the movie.

What I really love about the movie is what I pictured when reading the book is basically live on screen. Ansel Elgort is exactly how I felt Augustus Waters would be – pretentious, absolutely charming, a great friend but also vulnerable. I was unsure about the casting of Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace, but I was won over in the scene with Peter Van Houten in Amsterdam. It’s not just these two cast members that were perfect but so were the other casts – Nat Wolff as Isaac was hilarious, Sam Trammell (whom you would be familiar with from True Blood) as the father and Laura Dern as the mother were heartbreaking, and Willem Dafoe as the Peter Van Houten elicits the same emotion you do when you read the book: hatred.

The music accompanying the movie was also brilliantly done, especially All I Want by Kodaline. The scene this song was used made me cry but the song made me cry more. Also notable mentions are All Of The Stars by Ed Sheeran and Not About Angels by Birdy. Boom Clap by Charli XCX is probably the only song in the movie that’s more upbeat.

All in all, a great movie adaption of a great book.

If you have not watched the movie or read the book, I truly recommend doing both. There’s nothing more beautiful than whatever you imagined while reading a book came to life.

I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.

The trailer…