Everything, Everything (2017)

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Everything, Everything was released by a Warner Bros Pictures on May 19, 2017 and directed by Stella Meghie. The American romantic drama film based on a novel of the same name by Nicola Yoon in 2015. [1]

The film stars Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson received ratings of 45% from 121 reviews, based on Rotten Tomatoes.

The storyline is about a black girl with immune disease falls in love with the white boy next door.

Plot

A smart, curious, and imaginative Maddy spends days for the rest of her life inside her house as she has an immune disorder and is treated as being [Severe combined immunodeficiency - Wikipedia SCID]. The 18-year-old is unable to socialize someone outside her house and leave the protection of the hermetically-sealed within her house. [2]

Maddie’s life simply books Pauline Whittier, her mother who takes care of her with the assistance of Carla, her nurse who had taken care of her for 15 years. Until one day a moving truck parked on the house next to hers, it is a new family just moving in. That is the time when Maddy sees Olly Bright, a white teen boy at her age, through her window’s room.

Same day at night, while Maddy is watching a movie with her mother, Olly and his sister visit Maddy’s house to give them a bundt cake. However, it was rejected by Pauline politely. As she is about to close the door, Olly right away asks where Maddy is, Pauline lies telling that she is not home. While in fact, Pauline knows Maddy’s desire to get to know Olly.

Pauline tries as hard as she can to block all opportunities for Maddy to see him, as she also knows that Olly's father is violent and their relationship is not going well.

Maddy convinced Carla to secretly let Olly visit her house. She promises Carla that Olly and her will be at the opposite side of the room. Later on, Maddy shares a passionate kiss with Olly while fireworks sparks.

Knowing about her daughter’s relationships, Pauline fires Carla for betraying her trust.

Maddy and Olly forma a deep bond and risk everything to be together, even if it means to lose everything. [3]

Everything, Everything

Controvery

Quoted from the teenvogue, Keah Brown, a writer and journalist, is a black disabled who has always wanted to see her representative on screen. “‘You're not really disabled’ narratives treat disability as a punishment, a terrible thing to be grateful to rid yourself of,” Keah tells Teen Vogue. “My hope is that disabled representation in the future is less about how we suffer and more about how we live.” Also, she stresses the important notes that the story of colored people, and disabled non-binary or gender nonconforming people. [4]

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