Review of Five Feet Apart (2019) by Lcamoviereviews — 22 Apr 2019

It’s been awhile since a movie made me shed a tear. This film tore at my heart strings. I never had a great understanding of cystic fibrosis but this film explained it to me and showed how awful it truly can be.

I couldn’t help but feel so full of emotion for both the lead characters. The film begins with a narration intro from Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) telling us about not being able to experience touch in the same way that everyday people can.

We see Will (Cole Sprouse) from a back view as she says about never being able touch him and him being gone. At this moment, I knew the ending of this would be tough and boy was it. The film does a great job giving us insight to CF and what it’s like to live in a hospital.

The moments between Poe (Moises Arias) and Stella are funny and give the movie some light. Their friendship is one of the bright spots of a film that makes you feel good but at the same time feeling sadness.

When Stella first meets Will, she doesn’t like him but we find that he is immediately smitten. He watches her YouTube videos in his room and gets to know her and her life. Each thing he proceeds to do makes her being to fall for him as well.

They make a pact for him to take his meds regularly because he is giving up and she is a control freak that doesn’t like things out of order. The chemistry between Stella and Will works on so many levels.

With a film like this, it’s make our break on how this will work. The moments of their date and not being able to touch each other is absolutely heartbreaking. I could only imagine what that would feel like.

The performances from Richardson and Sprouse are so good. Richardson made my heart drop in the final moments in the film and I could not believe that I actually was crying. It takes a lot in a film to do that to me but she really tore at me.

She carries this film so well. Sprouse is the same. He is so convincing in his performance and put myself in his character’s shoes and that’s what I think really got me. This film has stuck with me a day after seeing it and it still is.

There is so much about this film that I love. My only gripe might be that I couldn’t believe their parents weren’t around more especially due to the extreme circumstances of what they have . Also, with them having to be six feet apart at all times, there were moments I could not help thinking why aren’t they wearing their masks in this situation and they seemed awfully close at times.

It’s a really huge risk for the characters to take. All in all, that is really my only complaint but on the whole, I absolutely adore this film and love everything about it. Learning more about CF and just the pure emotion this film has, is just truly compelling and heart wrenching.

The final act is one of the most emotional times I have ever felt seeing a film.