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sarah_hutchins's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Abortion
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, and Blood
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting
katrinaamartin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, and Pregnancy
madisoncarter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
margztgz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol
annasreads612's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
miriameckl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
laurabarrett's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol
mirivii's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Abortion
sketchybooks's review
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The movie has its issues. It tries to tell the story in a similar way to the book and becomes a bit of a jumbled mess at times because of that, but. The character BZ is combined with another character who was pretty pointless in the book... but when combined with BZ gave that character much more depth and a more interesting relationship with Maria. In the movie, their friendship is what mattered most to me, and made the ending that much more intense. In the book, they barely knew each other, and I had trouble making any connection. Which, I'm aware, may have been the point, but I prefer the point in the movie personally.
It also helps that 1) Anthony Perkins gave an extremely arresting performance as BZ (which says something interesting about collaborative storytelling and even representation, since Perkins' life experiences definitely seem relevant) and 2) the movie only has one character use the f slur (that I remember?) and he's a terrible person, unlike the book where our protagonist says it constantly.
The author did help write the screenplay, so as a writer myself I'm curious if these changes were made more for story purposes or merely for adaptation purposes. Personally, I'm very glad for the changes, even though the book itself also has its strengths over the movie.
Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide
Moderate: Eating disorder
This follows a woman's experience with an abortion in the 1970's, and includes a lot of potentially triggering moments surrounding that.