Film Analysis: Me Earl And The Dying Girl

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Me, Earl and the Dying Girl started off in the most boring way possible. Narration and a dolly in on Greg, played by Thomas Mann, typing on his computer. These days I’ve been paying particular attention on the very first 10 minutes of a film. Does it grab me? Do I get so deep into the story that I don’t want out? Am I totally mesmerized? The first minutes of this film was none of the above. How boring to start off with narration. Films are supposed to be action heavy. An Auteur tells a story with pictures not words. And this one started off with nothing but words, then backed up those words with type on a computer screen. How lame can you get. But, then, the story went on, and what I began to notice is that this filmmaker, Alfonso

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