Chemical hearts

 Overview

Genre: Romance/Drama 

Release Date: August 21st 2020

Duration: 1h 33m

Age rating: R

Director: Richard Tanne - an American filmmaker and actor born on February 4th 1985 in Livingston, New Jersey, United States

Production companies: Amazon Studios, Awesomeness, Page Fifty-Four Pictures, Big Indie Pictures

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

Cast: Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Jon Lemmon and Coral Peña

Plot

A high school senior falls in love with a new transfer student who hides a heartbreaking secret.

My personal opinion

I would give this movie a 9/10 - it was phenomenal! Very raw and realistic, showing time heals and love isn't always a beautiful thing. 

The discovery of loss and love by teenagers who are caught between childhood and adulthood is  both beautiful as well as heartbreaking. Fabulous acting, fabulous story and relatable yet memorable characters.

Lili Reinhart played the part of Grace really well. Her emotions of grief, her high and low points, her love scenes with Henry. Speaking of Henry (who was played by Austin Abrams) I feel like he was a really easy character to read. He grew up in a nice area with his loving parents, never experienced what true pain feels like.....until he fell in love. 

My favourite quotes from this movie are...

1. Did you know that heartbreak triggers the same areas of the brain as physical pain?
2. There’s a reason why when every author, from Shakespeare to Salinger, write about young people, they can’t avoid the truth, that being young is so painful, it’s almost too much to feel.
3. Love, it’s a chemical reaction that comes and goes. Here’s the good news, so is heartbreak. Your brains adjusts. Your body chemistry changes back to normal.
4. When you are a teenager, the chemicals in your brain drive you to make decisions that rip you away from the safety of your childhood and drag you into the wilderness of adulthood.
5. We tend to think of scars as ugly or imperfect, as things we want to hide or forget. But they never go away.
6. Scars are not reminders of what’s been broken, but rather of what’s been created