Efectos colaterales del amor

Chemical Hearts is a decent film that spreads mental health awareness. The movie is a love story about a hopeless romantic falling in love with the new girl at school. Lili Reinhart's acting is incredibly touching. Despite the fantastic acting, the story was poorly executed. The plot seemed unfinished. I would recommend this movie to suckers for sappy, romantic, chick-flicks.

This is a really good movie, better than I expected. I like Lili Reinhart, having watched her as Betty in "Riverdale", she also was a producer for this new-release movie on Amazon streaming. Set and filmed in New Jersey, she is high school senior Grace Town, new to this school, with a limp and a cane.

Austin Abrams is Henry Page, also a senior and newly appointed school newspaper editor. Grace and Henry become friends and then more, but Grace always seems distant, something is bothering her, she doesn't speak about it easily. It is wrapped up in the bad wreck about a year earlier that killed her friend and cut her track career short.

The title is a reference to several things, one a comment made early while looking at the night sky, that we are just molecules, chemicals, made from exploded star remnants. Another is what Henry's doctor sister says about chemical changes in the minds of teenagers, as they start to leave behind childhood and cope with what it means to be a young adult. Teenagers develop Chemical Hearts.

The movie doesn't have a wrapped up, happily ever after ending but it does have Henry and Grace each headed in perhaps better directions, preparing for young adulthood. My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming.

6/10 - promising young adult novel adaptation explores lots of worthy themes but never manages to truly lift off the ground

A teen drama movie based on a book. How can we get over that love that hurt us? In this movie you won't know. It is about a boy who meets a girl and falls in love with her, while discovering his past. Parsimonious. Quality. She talks about how sometimes we cannot forget the damage we have done or the damage they did to us, although she succeeds in doing it, she does not show how to overcome it, she becomes more and more stuck in her central idea. It is not your typical teenage story. At times it may seem silly and toxic, the message it tries is good but the situations and how to get there are not. Avoidable. It's like a sleeping pill in the middle of the movie, it has a good opening and a little closing, but it falls off in the middle. She tries to look smart and is only ostentatious because she can't. The book may try something else but the film does not and stays in the attempt.

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A deep embodiment of what it is to forget who you used to be. Dealing with the unknown, people tend to forget who they were or who they wanted to be. Watch this movie through the eyes of your old teen self. As someone that needs to learn more of what no one, but life itself, can teach us. Give it a chance.