Film Review: The Sun Is Also A Star Shows Love Is Cosmic
Is love fated? I like to think so, and, based off of Nicola Yoon’s books, the feeling seems to be, “Heck Yeah!” Like most Young Adult literature/ films, The Sun Is Also A Star follows the notion that, somewhere, is your partner, and life will bring you to him or her through a series of almost supernatural coincidences.
The Sun Is Also A Star feels like a classic love story because it makes you believe in Love’s magic. Yara Shahidi plays Natasha Kingsley; a young, Jamaican woman facing deportation the very next day and on her way to an immigration lawyer with a crushed hope that a miracle will occur. Meanwhile, Charles Melton’s Daniel is a dough-eyed dreamer about to interview for Dartmouth. These two are in clearly adifferent path, but a “Deux Ex Machina” phrase begins their link, which begins their conversations, and thus their star-crossed attraction.
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There is a definite Shakespearean, “star-crossed” vibe to Natasha and Daniel, which is why young girls will be enthralled by their love story. The odds are against them, even though it may not seem so, thanks to Director Ry Russo-Young’s artful display of their love. The director assures that romance overfills the air to make the audience feel hopeful that ICE will NEVER conquer true love. This film is dreamy and blatantly sapped by young love’s sweetness, but that is EXACTLY what its audience wants.
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The Sun Is Also A Star relies on Melton and Shahidi to ground the film with their chemistry and rich, optimistic soliloquies on how the universe put them together to keep them together. In essence, life would never be so cruel to make you love so deeply to lose so quickly. Is that true? Will the young couple have a happy ending? Find out when The Sun Is Also A Star comes out on May 17.
