If I Stay - Review
If I Stay Review
If I Stay is a romantic drama film directed by R. J. Cutler, based on the novel of the same name by Gayle Forman. It is a beautiful and moving film and I honestly recommend you go and see it as soon as possible.
The story tells a 17-year-old girl called Mia who loves playing classical cello and is set out to be a nerdy misfit. When the movie begins she is ready to go to school when a snow day is announced on the radio and her and her family decide to go see her grandparents. When they are driving you see a lot of shots of the amount of snow that is laying around, you could feel the disaster coming. A few shots later you hear the sound of slipping tires and you see a truck closing in on them really fast and as expected you hear the bang of the two colliding cars fast after that. The whole movie would have been shot in the hospital if it wasn’t for all the flashbacks about the young love story. First there is a flashback about Mia’s love story with Adam, but after that you see the crash site and you see Mia looking over her own body. Once they arrive at the hospital Mia watches herself get surgery and she watches her family getting more worried and eventually telling her it would be all right if she wanted to move on.
Chloë Grace Moretz is the actress who played the young Mia and I have to say she did an exceptional job. Mia is a very sad girl who doesn’t know what she wants and who she is accept she loves classical music and playing the cello. Therefore Moretz had to do a lot of crying scenes and every single one of them was beautiful to watch. You could feel everyone in the room holding their breaths to take in as much as possible. Every actor in this film plays around Moretz and make her do even better. You can almost feel the love Adam, her parents and her grandparents have for her.
Mia is a big fan of classical music and that’s why you hear her playing some beautiful pieces on her cello. But Adam is a proper rocker and the lead singer of
If I Stay is a romantic drama film directed by R. J. Cutler, based on the novel of the same name by Gayle Forman. It is a beautiful and moving film and I honestly recommend you go and see it as soon as possible.
The story tells a 17-year-old girl called Mia who loves playing classical cello and is set out to be a nerdy misfit. When the movie begins she is ready to go to school when a snow day is announced on the radio and her and her family decide to go see her grandparents. When they are driving you see a lot of shots of the amount of snow that is laying around, you could feel the disaster coming. A few shots later you hear the sound of slipping tires and you see a truck closing in on them really fast and as expected you hear the bang of the two colliding cars fast after that. The whole movie would have been shot in the hospital if it wasn’t for all the flashbacks about the young love story. First there is a flashback about Mia’s love story with Adam, but after that you see the crash site and you see Mia looking over her own body. Once they arrive at the hospital Mia watches herself get surgery and she watches her family getting more worried and eventually telling her it would be all right if she wanted to move on.
Chloë Grace Moretz is the actress who played the young Mia and I have to say she did an exceptional job. Mia is a very sad girl who doesn’t know what she wants and who she is accept she loves classical music and playing the cello. Therefore Moretz had to do a lot of crying scenes and every single one of them was beautiful to watch. You could feel everyone in the room holding their breaths to take in as much as possible. Every actor in this film plays around Moretz and make her do even better. You can almost feel the love Adam, her parents and her grandparents have for her.
Mia is a big fan of classical music and that’s why you hear her playing some beautiful pieces on her cello. But Adam is a proper rocker and the lead singer of