Review: Don’t stand too close to wan melodrama Five Feet Apart GlobeArts
Haley Lu Richardson and Cole SprouseThe general rule for patients with cystic fibrosis is to not get within six feet of each other, to avoid the transmission of deadly bacteria. This is a rule Stella has never challenged, until meeting Will during her latest hospital stay. Quickly forming a romantic bond, the two teens must grapple with the fact that they cannot touch each other.
Quickly forming a romantic bond, the two teens must grapple with the fact that they cannot touch each other.While illness, especially chronic illness, can take a huge role in a person’s life, Stella is utterly subsumed into it, with no identity outside being sick.Despite a strong performance from Richardson, Stella is a poorly constructed character. Her life revolves around her illness: She codes, only to build apps to help with medication.
Convinced that a woman with cystic fibrosis would have no life outside of her illness until she got a boyfriend,lacks the strong characterization that might have saved the otherwise flaccid film. The most intense emotion generated by attempts at sweeping romantic gestures or heavy dramatics , is absurdity – and even that isn’t very interesting.
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