Hospital world
Almost all the action of a two-hour tape takes place in the hospital where forever dwells the heroine is a high school senior Stella (adorable Haley Lu Richardson). She suffers from an incurable genetic disease — cystic fibrosis (cystic fibrosis), waiting for lung transplantation, which is able to extend her life. The girl meticulously follows complex treatment Protocol, strict schedule eating handfuls of pills chocolate yogurt and making numerous therapeutic procedures necessary for maintaining the state of her fragile health (which — illness) to a tolerable level.
Screens in the world
To his credit, Director Justin Baldoni effectively organizes the debut of the painting, which shows the organized life of Stella, allowing her, through adherence, to preserve the strength, optimism and youthful joie de vivre (though tinged somewhat painful smile). He even manages to deceive “theme” expectations, presenting hospital space-inhabited home, family.
From the first frame, thanks to the fragments of the “home video” clips on YouTube, the glowing screens of laptop, tablet and iPhone and it shows one of the main visual techniques to use in telling the story and helping her to step outside a hospital ward heroine.
The lady and the hooligan
The debut is the Director and main character. Will (gloomy handsome Cole Sprous) — new in office and even more hopelessly sick than Stella. Because he is a carrier is particularly resistant to antibiotics of the bacteria transplant he does not Shine. Hope the experimental treatment is also not particularly brightens the life of a hero, so he always skimp on the prescriptions of doctors and even comes out of the frosty roof of the hospital, risky balancing on its edge. In General, compared to other patients slender young man, fond of drawing, seems to be a real bully. Stella’s first it causes irritation (she categorically requires the will, so that he complied with hospital rules), and then, of course, is the hot first love. Of course, mutual.
A scene from the movie “five steps to love”
The puritans necessarily
The main obstacle in the way of relationships charismatic characters is a feature of their illness. They constantly have to keep my distance, not closer to each other more than five feet (that’s about them, not the steps, it is in the original title of the painting is Five Feet Apart). If they get closer, touch and especially kiss, Stella is infected with hazardous bacteria, will say goodbye with hope for a transplant. So the characters actually standing with one foot in the grave, then try to stop the budding relationship, still Dating, just to be safe measuring the distance between a pool cue. Their fatal (considering tragic medical circumstances) collision with a resounding romantic feeling is the emotional core of the picture.
Five steps to love
Reality and fiction
Thus the authors are able to clearly and adequately disclose to viewers the nature of hereditary diseases, traditional approaches to its treatment and those rigid framework in which it “enters” the daily life of patients, successfully combining mnogazhdy seen a cinematic story about impossible love and the burning reality. This is possible through the stories for YouTube, at that time she writes Stella. These videos were created suffering from cystic fibrosis Claire Vineland. She was the hero of the episode of the documentary series, Justine Baldoni “My last days” and advised the authors of the film “five steps to love”. The girl died in 2018, at the age of 21 years. Her memory is dedicated to the movie.
Gene survival melodrama
The predictable nature of most melodramatic curls is not an obstacle to viewing the tape. Some moves of the party plot will be drawn traditionally (the relationship between the characters of the first and second plans, for example, is somewhat like a situation of “the Fault in our stars” Josh Boone). Others will be so unexpected that you submit them in advance would be impossible. Safe to predict that the film (albeit with a quiet squeak) will cause should tear effect. And will not leave you indifferent.