As somebody who is personally going through something similar to what the the main character is I have to say, this movie is pathetic.
The story was written by someone who clearly does not know what its like to be terminal, Tessa is a flat one dimensional character, the only emotions she seems to feel are sad, more sad, and occasionally less sad. Take the dying element out of it and she's just another brooding teenager.
To the person who wrote the screenplay, I know this was based on a novel, I have no idea whether the source material was bad or not, but in the future: People who face and are around death generally get a (morbid) sense of humor about it. This applies to doctors, soldiers, and the terminally ill.
A morbid sense of humor may seem like a small detail, but its a big whopping error to omit it, and in the end, a movie like this must be at least somewhat comedic (and morbid) to be believable.
The soundtrack for this movie had the same problem, most of it could be played at a funeral without offending anyone. Any possibility for redemption of this film was ruined by that. Even the scenes where I could have been made to feel some emotion other than "some variant of sad" were ruined by the soundtrack.
If you want a more realistic feel for what its like to face death, go watch 50/50 it was written by somebody who's been through this for real. Now Is Good may as well be named, "Unrealistic film where brooding teenager dies at the end."
The story was written by someone who clearly does not know what its like to be terminal, Tessa is a flat one dimensional character, the only emotions she seems to feel are sad, more sad, and occasionally less sad. Take the dying element out of it and she's just another brooding teenager.
To the person who wrote the screenplay, I know this was based on a novel, I have no idea whether the source material was bad or not, but in the future: People who face and are around death generally get a (morbid) sense of humor about it. This applies to doctors, soldiers, and the terminally ill.
A morbid sense of humor may seem like a small detail, but its a big whopping error to omit it, and in the end, a movie like this must be at least somewhat comedic (and morbid) to be believable.
The soundtrack for this movie had the same problem, most of it could be played at a funeral without offending anyone. Any possibility for redemption of this film was ruined by that. Even the scenes where I could have been made to feel some emotion other than "some variant of sad" were ruined by the soundtrack.
If you want a more realistic feel for what its like to face death, go watch 50/50 it was written by somebody who's been through this for real. Now Is Good may as well be named, "Unrealistic film where brooding teenager dies at the end."