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Paper Towns


Paper Towns, a film adaptation of the 2008 novel by John Green. I've never read the book so I really had no idea when I watched the movie.

It's not the kind of a movie you'd like to watch over and over again, but certainly it will make you think about people... about life.

"Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it, look at it all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in in themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."

The story tackles about friendship, young love, people and living your life to the fullest. It teaches us about how we see people, that sometimes people sees people just how they wanted to be or wanted to believed in. That sometimes, people are different than we actually think they are. That from a distance, you can't see the flaws of someone or of a society, that only when you look up closely you'll understand why and how. Just like the character of Margo, at first you'll think of her as an ordinary teenage girl who's adventurous, mysterious, kick-ass girl, or even an attention seeker because of what she does in her life. Truth is, she's just a girl filled with unhappiness and dissappointment of her life, to the point of she can't held any second to stay and just wanted to run away. An ordinary girl, and also a human being who happens to have made a real difference to Quentin's life, teaching him in a different way of living his life to the fullest, that there's more to life than just living in his comfort zone and being anxious most of the time.



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