Going to see The Fault In Our Stars

Ever since I heard the announcement that John Greens book The Fault In Our Stars was going to be made into a movie, I had been counting the days till I could go and see it.

Finally that day came. Yesterday evening I headed down to the O2 in London to meet up with a group of nerdfighter and we all headed in to the cinema to go watch the film.

Even though I so eagerly anticipated seeing the film, there was a small part of me that was worried about seeing it. I'm sure most people know by now that more often then not films adapted from books tend not to live up to expectation. This was my fear for this film, that they'd take liberties that affected the story or add in new scenes or do something that ultimately would taint my memories of the book.

After several hours we emerged from the cinema, and were all surprisingly shocked at how amazing it actually was. We all thought that it would be brilliant but they actually seemed to have taken on the concerns of the fans, the advice given by John and produced something that portrays not just the written story but the thoughts and feelings produced from that story.

What's more is that the film seemed to be more than a film for us, it portrays an image of young people that isn't displayed that often now a days, an image that many of us hanging around on the internet feel we share, but people don't see. Its a film that also makes you think, about people, about life, and just about how you act and how you deal with things, and to me any film that makes you ponder over what you have just seen is a success.

Knowing much of the background of the book, and the making of the film from the insight provided by John Green we all felt as though it was more personal to us, having queued up on day one to read the book and through being connected through the virtual community that is the Nerdfighters. It's not like a hipster thing, like we were there from the beginning thing, its just that its something as a community and me personally got invested in and it was awesome to see that the story was done justice.

This isn't a review, or even me saying that people should rush out and see it, (even though you really should) I just wanted, as always, a place to write down my thoughts and some feelings that I was left with yesterday, that I pondered on during the train home.