(REVIEW) Me And Earl And The Dying Girl / Friendship Doesn't Kill, or Does It? (2015)

I'm in love with this movie; I'm in love with how the story is being told and everything. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has all the good vibes of a Sundance's winning movie, if not more. It is vibrant and enchanting, funny and witty, relatable and moving.

Coming from Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, based on a book by Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is telling us a story about Greg and two of his friends; which actually named Earl and actually dying and named Rachel. Earl is his lifetime's co-worker, because despite of how normal he looks like (if dividing the entire high-school into various sovereign states is considered normal), Greg is actually scared of the idea of friend. Rachel, on the other hand, depart of being a dying girl, is someone Greg befriended because his mother forced him to.

This is a coming-of-age, friendship story of three senior students that is everything but cliche. Greg is narrating all the story and midway I'm so sure he has the talent of directing by the way I am so absorbed in the plot (42 movies to count, so far). As for Rachel, copying what Greg said to us later when we are far enough, "I like this girl Rachel, and I'm gonna be pissed if she dies at the end." Earl is completing the trio as the perfect wingman, even though this is not a touching romantic story. I love the way Greg and Rachel's relationship is progressing as the story goes, but Earl has always been there for Greg since forever; and he is not someone that easy to be friend with, so I'm gonna give Earl all the credits he deserved.

The plot is beautifully wrapped, but frankly the highlight for me is the privilege of getting to know Greg so well from his point of view. It might be biased, as I see myself in Greg so much. Me just better at pretending, but we do have similarity in the way we hate non-stop strangers and the survival game we have to do everyday. Maybe that's why I love Greg at everything because he is able to bring up the irony in the funniest way. Greg is weird, but I agree that everybody are weird. Greg is embracing himself as that terminally awkward guy whose face a little like ground-hog and has a very low opinion of himself. Only that he is so fun to be with, if you give him the chance. He doesn't always come with the very best feedback because he overthinks so much, but gradually we can see about how much he cares when he does.

I think it is square to say this is a movie that would complete a movie marathon of movies like Juno (which was actually come from the same studio) and The Perks of Being Wallflower. Happy watching!

x
Michelle