Dying Girl Critique

I will be reviewing and analyzing one of my favorite movie. The movie “Me and Earl and the Dying girl” was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and has won a few awards. The film uses many styles of cuts, visuals, and great background music, but what I will be focusing mostly on is the silence of the film and it's effectiveness on how that develops the movie. The movie is about a girl named Rachel who gets diagnosed with cancer and meets two young boys with big hearts as they bend over backwards to make her happy. The movie beginnings by understanding what kind of person Greg. Before Rachel was diagnosed Greg and Rachel had no relations other than sharing one class together. They soon later develop a deep bond and create a relationship that makes …show more content…
Rachel’s voice gets played in the background as you see what kind of letter she had wrote him. He looks around in the room and looks through all of her stuff. Even though Rachel is dead he is still understanding and still learns more about Rachel, he finds stuff around the room as it turns into a scavenger hunt. He is just left speechless that Rachel as spent the time doing all this stuff for him even though she is no longer with him. He touches everything in the room that has a resemblance to the things they did or talked about. The whole time Greg doesn't say anything as you sit back and just watch all of the emotions come in. That just scene just has such powerful moment in the movie, as you understand everything he is going through because the film just makes you feel as if you are there. The end goes on with Greg talking to himself as he lays in bed thinking about everything that he has been through and all that Rachel had done for him. The movie zooms out as you see him stare at the video he had made for her and write “Warning: The last person who saw this immediately went into a coma and DIED”. And the camera zooms out at him staring the