Efectos colaterales del amor

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.

It jumps ahead from the typical teenager romance and explores the reality of young love and heartbreak. I could relate so much on how they portrayed the confusion about being in love and about being someone that you aren't ready to be yet. If you are someone that easily cries watching movies, you should totally bring a tissue with you. Lili Reinhart's acting is flawless and the way she embraced the role of grace town is totally out of this world.

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

Lost my words...

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.

So last day it was about Chemical Hearts! Strong acting and melancholic drama that portrays the other side of love. It makes our heart thuds and wet.though it doesn't show any death scene but post death emotions and great acting skills delivers all the pain with an uncompromised level. Once again Lili. Austin was subtle but it so realistic about how he is so affectionate to a person who doesn't love him back, how he couldn't find words when he wants to express him and he is ready to offer his soul to the already broken girl and he gets rejected and it breaks his heart! There comes some words about other teenage problems though. It doesn't describe anything other than pain and love. But surely explain the Confused Limbo stage of teens. But as they break up, Austin is finally entering to adulthood and his view change as the film says adults are just scarred teenager who tried to escape the limbo stage! But when it comes to LOVE all adults are just teenagers, doesn't it?