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Marguerite Darcy on Paper Towns

7/24/2015

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Paper Towns is an original teenage love story set in Orlando, FL. It's based of the book of the same name by John Green, who also wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. Quentin (Nat Wolff, the blind guy in The Fault in Our Stars) has been in love with his neighbour, Margo (model Cara Delevigne) ever since she moved in when they were kids. Friends for a short period of time, they nevertheless grew up to be very different. Q turned into a shy, straight A student, while Margo is more of a rebel, run away girl and high school legend.

It’s the last weeks of senior year of high school, and one night Margo climbs Quentin’s window, as she used to when they were kids. She’s asking for his help to accomplish her personal vendetta, promising “the best night of his life.” While Margo gets her revenge, Quentin definitely lives the craziest night of his life. The end of their tour reveals a side that Margo was hidding: she’s tired of everything surrounding her, and completely lost. It seems like she’s just playing with Quentin, but it’s more like she’s trying to teach him that life can, and should be enjoyed.
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The next morning though, Margo is nowhere to be found. Thinking it’s another of her mysterious games, Quentin starts investigating to find the girl that stole his heart. Helped by his two best friends, Ben and Radar, the investigation rather turns into exciting first-time life experiences, such as skipping class and going to a party. Once Quentin figured out where Margo is (or so he thinks) he, Ben and Radar, Margo’s hot BF Lacey and a last-minute guest embark in a crazy roadtrip to get Margo back to her life.

The movie is absolutely cliché, and starts off quite badly, but turns out to be pretty funny. In the end, it’s more a story of a group of friends enjoying their senior year -- and life -- for the first time, and finding themselves in comical situations, than a cheesy romance. One of the guys has his first sexual experience, another finally gets a prom date, Ansel Elgort (Gus in The Fault in Our Stars) is a dragon-tattooed gas station cashier, and everybody almost dies because of a cow in the middle of the road. So as they say, it’s really more about enjoying the journey than getting to the destination.

Grade: B-
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