Let’s start off with the facts. I’ve read If I Stay and the companion book Where She Went. I am fully aware of the fact that Gayle Forman is the master puppeteer of human emotions. Knowing these two things I still managed to walk into the theater unprepared to see If I Stay. Going in I was confident. I’ve survived watching the Fault In Our Stars and that makes me the equivalent to a movie-watching super hero. I realized I was in too deep around the moment where my friend Amy started keeping me supplied with popcorn in an attempt to keep me from holding her hand.
Adam
Helloooo Adam. Although you’re not my traditional type of guy, I might have fallen in love with you a bit while watching you on screen. I have never used the word swoon to describe my feelings for a person or a fictional character, but now I get it. I think that I have swooned. When can I download your music and hang posters of you on my wall?
Music
The music in the movie manages to create an entire additional cast of characters of its own. After reading the book I was aware of the presence of both classical and rock, but the way that they are both used throughout was done really well.
Final Thoughts with The Good The Bad and the Ugly:
The Good/Great: Chloe Moritz was great. I felt like she was Mia. In one exceptionally emotional scene, I wanted to scream right along with her in the middle of the theater.
The Bad: Doll heads. Whose idea was it to have doll heads on the front porch? I don’t understand them. They were creepy.
The Ugly: Now you guys get to hate me because I’ve built this movie up and now you will have unreasonable expectations, but I don’t actually care. I loved it. I can’t wait to see it again, and reread both books. I will download the movie the second it is available on itunes and I will watch it with my preteen daughter the way that she made me watch Frozen.
Did you see If I Stay this weekend? Have you stopped crying yet?
