<p class="ql-block">Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a movie about youth, growth, friendship,also strength and optimism.</p> <p class="ql-block">The film is told in the first person，and 'I' is Greg.Greg is not used to high school life and has his own ideas but inferiority.Under the force of his mother, Greg reluctantly goes to the home of Rachel, a single parent who suffers from leukemia.The journey between Greg and Rachel begins.</p> <p class="ql-block">Through Greg, Rachel gets to know Earl,who Greg prefers to call a coworker than a friend.Their common hobby is making movies，but which they think are so suck.Although they didn't show their movie to anyone, they showed it to Rachel.While no one else can understand, Rachel enjoys watching it.Later, because Earl told Rachel that they were going to make a movie for her，the three of them had a quarrel.Earl says,"Rachel is the only one who knows and cares about you," After that, a lot of troubles came to Greg's mind-not finishing school,College application is rejected and so on.Greg exploded with emotion.</p> <p class="ql-block">But after calming down,he gets dressed for PROM, but instead of going to school, he goes to the hospital.After entering the hospital room and seeing Rachel so weak，Greg silently puts a wreath on Rachel's hand.Then he plays the movie they have made for her.When the movie gets to the middle,Rachel's condition is worse than before.Greg is pulled out of the room,and a few minutes later,Rachel falls into a coma，then ten hours later,she passed away.It is the first time Greg had faced death,he doesn't know what to do.But he suddenly understands what the history teacher had said-"Even after somebody dies，you can still keep learning about them,and know their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long as you pay attention to it."He sneaks into Rachel's room,looking at the letter Rachel left behind, he found the book sculpture from the book that he gave Rachel-The three of them eating ice cream together that afternoon.Greg finally realizes something he didn't know about Rachel before.After Rachel's death, Greg may continues to make their bad movies, but he certainly won't return to the self-loathing he was before.</p> <p class="ql-block">The story is about friendship, healing, death, lost youth and the dreams of teenage fans. There are no domestic teen movies about abortion, complicated romantic relationships, or even redundant sentimental archeans. It wrapped in American teenpic shell, locking with a heart of comedy, in a familiar way to convey like brocade painting texture, pure and fresh with some absurd, and cure of thought, emotion sincere manipulating audiences in humor, let you when should cry even laugh, but can still is hit the most soft place in your little heart and moved you mess.</p> <p class="ql-block">Greg grew up in an unusual environment. His father was eccentric and his mother always spoke highly of him. This led to his self-loathing and self-abasement, and he even referred to his only friend as "coworker".When wrote the admissions essay, Greg casually wrote ，“I am looking forward to college beacause of my weird rodent face,and a habit of saying the dumbest possible shit,the sheer pastiness of my complexion overwhelms all who behold it with existential nousea", Rachel changed to "In high school,I never truly felt comfortable in my own skin.In fact,I've always been someone who doesn't really like themselves.ButI think that's because I have some growing up to do,and college is the place where I'm going to do it."</p> <p class="ql-block">In the first half of the film, Rachel has begun to really walk into Greg's heart, his movies, know him, the film didn't read the small universe of Rachel, it was not until after her death, Greg see Rachel play with scissors are used to create what, in the director does not look sensational atmosphere, lachrymal began to relax, see here with the narrator of Rachel, we got a rich spiritual girl, her dream was to become a squirrel, a desire to run into the forest.A man's life is a continuation. After her death, Greg found so many new things about her, Paper carvings, squirrels and the "spirit in heaven" in her mouth.Just as his teacher once said，“Even after somebody dies,you can still keep learning about them.”</p> <p class="ql-block">海口实验中学 </p><p class="ql-block">高二八班 </p><p class="ql-block">陈鉴川 龙柏睿作品</p>