MOVIE REVIEW

OF
FIVE FEET APART

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

DR. (MRS.) ALKA SINGH NIHARIKA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR B.A.LLB. (Hons.)
(ENGLISH) SEMESTER- 1
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University
SECTION – A
ENROLLMENT NO:- 220101091

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thanks my English Professor – Dr.

(Mrs.) Alka Singh, for guiding me for this project
project and to help me get an idea of English
language and literature which helped me
enhance my knowledge and build prospects
towards the respective subject. I would also like
to thank my friends and family for helping me by
providing ideas and suggestions pertaining to the
elaborated movie i.e., Five Feet Apart .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1)
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………
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2)
MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE MOVIE
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3)SUMMARY
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4) WOMEN’S ROLE IN
SOCIETY…………………………………………………………..

5) MIDDLE CLASS: STATUS, TRADITION,

PROPRIETY………………………………………………

6)MODERN
INFLUENCES………………………………………………………

7)
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………
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8)REFERENCES………………………………………………………
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FIVE FEET APART

1)INTRODUCTION
 Take a breath. Take a deep breath . Those of us
have the luxury of taking breathing for granted
get to chose when we think about drawing air
into our lungs- to center our thoughts, to relax,
to sing, to blow up a balloon, to run. For people
with lung diseases like cystic fibrosis(CF), every
breath is a struggle, a triumph, and a painful
reminder that it may be the last.

Just a few decades ago, the life expectancy for

those born with CF was 10. So it is only recently
that people like the teenagers with CF in “ Five
Feet Apart” lived long enough to truly
understand their diseases and their limitations.
Starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse,
this is a drama made in 2019, written by Mikki
Daughtry, Tobias laconis and directed by Justin
Baldoni. It has an IMDb of 7.2/10.
It is a great film with magnificent young actors,
they showed their quality in this drama; based on
a true story with tragic end.

2)SUMMARY
Stella ( a radiant Haley Lu Richardson) checks
into the hospital for help with an infection as
though it is her second home. The medical
staff is her old friends, especially
Barb(Kimberly Hebert Gregory), a
compassionate nurse. Stella knows all the
routines and she knows what to bring for
comfort, including her stuffed panda, the
laptop she uses for her vlog updates about
living with CF, and the pictures from her
bedroom wall.

Stella knows that her best case scenario, a

lung transplant, may only work for five years,
but in the CF medical relay race, the best case
scenario is always just to last long enough for
better treatment to be invented.

In the meantime, Stella knows that her best

coping mechanisms are feeling in control of
her “regimen” of care, organizing the meds
cart, taking her pills with chocolate pudding,
and visiting the babies in the neonatal
intensive care unit.

Her best friend Poe (Moises Arias) is back in

the hospital, too. And so is Will( Coles
Sprouse) another teenage CF patient, there to
receive an experimental drug. While to
receive an experimental drug. While Stella is
ultra, even hyper cooperative in her
treatment, hoping to be able to get the lung
transplant, Will is a cynic and a rebel, in part
because his prognosis is not as hopeful. Even
if the medication is successful, the B-cepecia
infection has made him ineligible
for atransplant. Stella presses him to keep up
with his regimen, and he agrees if she will let
him draw her.

Love stories always have to have a reason to

keep the couple apart and in this case, that
means literally apart. Because of their
vulnerability to infection, CF patients have to
stay at least six feet from each other. They
are like Romeo and Juliet if the Montagues
were bacteria and the Capulets were a set of
new lungs.

Latex gloves, no touching, and six feet at all

time between them. As Stella falls for Will she
says, “After all CF has taken from me, I don’t
mind stealing one foot back. ”And so they
have a date, still within the walls of the
hospital( apparently hospitals have swimming
pools) using a five-foot pool cue to measure
their distance. And then, because they are
teenagers, they take some very big risks.

It is tempting to dismiss this story as “sick-lit”

but director Justin Baldoni balances the
compelling specifies of CF with the larger
questions we all face about creating meaning
in a world of uncertainty and loss. And he
does it with two gifted and appealing young
stars, especially Richardson, whose exquisitely
expressive face shows us every hope, fear,
hesitation, regret, and longing Stella is feeling.
Baldoni clearly learned a great deal from his
“My Last Days” television series documenting
the lives of terminally ill people, including a
teenager with CF, and he shows sensitivity
and insight in exploring these issues within a
fictional story. He makes the most of the way
he uses the hospital setting, the atriumlobby
with its drab, sturdy institutional furniture. As
Stella and Will fall in love, it seems warmed by
their tenderness and excitement.

Even healthy young people can die . Illness

can devastate families, emotionally and
financially. It is scary to love someone and it
can be even scarier to let someone love you,
especially when you are embarrassed by your
scars. We all try to find a way to feel in
control of something, whether it is by lining
up pill boxes on a meds cart and doing what
we are told or by putting an “Abandon all
hope we ye who enter here”sign on a hospital
door and ignoring good advice. “We don’t
have time for delicacy,” one character says, in
their case because they may not live a
“normal” lifespan, but in reality, films like this
remind us we could all do better at making
sure we get the most from the time we have.

All the main characters are impossible not to

fall in love with. They’re such quirky and
amazing people, each with their own flaws
and strengths. This movie could not have
been the same without the wonderful acting
of Richardson, Sprouse and Arias. It was so
realistic that I forgot I was watching a movie;
instead it felt like peering into someone else’s
life and watching it unfold. There were parts
of the movie that made my cry because the
acting was so incredible and believable.

This movie spreads awareness about cystic

fibrosis and the people that have it. It really
shows how cystic fibrosis patients are normal
human beings who do normal things and their
diseases does not define them as a person.
“Five Feet Apart” is more than just a love
story between Stella and Will. It has a truly
powerful message that everyone should take
away from this brilliant film: live life to the
fullest, because you never know what might
happen tomorrow.

CONCLUSION

The poignant message of “Five Feet Apart” is

never far as these characters attempt to
experience all life has to offer while struggling
to survive. Will loves to say, “It’s just life, it’ll
be over before you know it.” While he
delivers it with cynicism, it becomes a mantra
that takes on new meaning every time it’s
uttered. It’s life, and it will be over before we
know it – why waste a second?