TO ALL THE BOYS, P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU

Yesterday I saw a beautiful film and I think it was perfect for Valentine's day. It is the sequel of the movie "To all the boys I've loved before", called "To all the boys, P.S. I still love you". It is adapted from a best-selling series of books and it's an interesting addition to a story of young love that doesn't end with the first big swoon.

It has the same characters as the book and the narrator, Lara Jean, is a Korean-American teenage girl that deals with the consequences of the letters she wrote to all the boys she had crushes on and her sister distributes to them.

In the first chapter Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter Kavinsky.

She and Peter were just pretending to be in love. Except suddenly they weren’t anymore. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.

When another boy from her past comes back into her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too.

We see first love through the eyes of the protagonist Lara Jean. Love is never easy, but maybe that’s part of what makes it so amazing.

This chapter is different. It's less flighty and more grounded, a little more suffused with at least the high-school version of how hard it is to make relationships work. It also feels less comedic, in part because Peter’s scenes have more tension than flirtation. There's part of me that longed for more of a straight-up romantic comedy, but I think that's the point! A story about falling in love cannot be followed by another story about the same people falling in love again, unless you want to throw in some amnesia.

A story about falling in love is followed by a story about trying to stay in love, and that's the story this movie is about. And it is, in its own way, very romantic.

MICHELA M.