Sep 23, 2017TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If I Stay was directed by RJ Cutler, and based off a book with the same name by Gayle Forman. It's a heart wrenching story of a young girl named Mia who follows her comatose self as she recovers from a car crash, while all her family dies around her. It's devastating to watch as it flips from her comatose state to the past, which eventually leads up to the car crash. It devastated me personally in multiple scenes, even to the point that it made me cry. I didn't like how it would jump from the past to the present, especially at the beginning when I had no idea what was going on. I thought the acting in the movie was very well done, and it truly added to the fact that it could happen to anyone, young or old. It kept you on the edge of your toes, as you had no idea if she was going to decide to follow the light to her death or keep fighting. The past also edges your anxiety as you watch her audition for her dream university and follow her relationship with her ex boyfriend. I thought the movie was very well done, tugging on all the appropriate heart strings, and making you feel for the character. There were the occasional bad parts of the movie, with the time jumps and the occasional cringe-worthy scenes, but I found that the good outweighed the bad in this movie. I'd give it a rating of 4/5.
- @NemoReads of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library
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If I Stay