Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) by Wendy D — 09 Oct 2016

The adolescence and especially the transition from high school to college is one of the most complicated parts of life through which most people face. For some people high school life can be considered a hell due to groups formed so that each one can feel integrated into "something".

However, this is not the case with Greg (Thomas Mann), a lonely boy who prefers to go unnoticed by the school to avoid conflicts with his classmates, and his low self-esteem prevents him from approaching anyone and takes him to lock himself into his hobby: creating amateur movies with his only friend Earl (RJ Cyler).

Greg life will change and complicate, when greater forces (his mom) push him to become befriend with Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a classmate that has been diagnosed with leukemia. With this premise Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed "Me, Earl and Rachel," a really good approach about the complexities of being a teenager.

This film offers wisdom and interesting jokes, which makes it so easy to flatter characters with difficult emotional situations. A emotive movie, without being melodramatic. Despite the film references, is a fully accessible to all audiences.

Highly recommended.