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'To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before' Gives Hope To Every 7th Grader With A Crush

If only this had happened to me when I was in high school.

Chloe Hassenfratz
Sep 28, 2018
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'To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before' Gives Hope To Every 7th Grader With A Crush
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This movie was so good I watched it twice the day it came out. It's a cute, coming-of-age rom-com that didn't disappoint. You see all of those sappy, teenage Netflix movies and think "I already know what's going to happen. I don't need to watch it." This one you need to put those comments aside and sit down for cringe-worthy, but also adorable, romantic comedy.

Fact: everyone in middle school had a crush. One that you could just stare at from afar...but not in a creepy way. This movie takes you on that same journey. You get to see the crushes of a shy, nerdier girl, Lara Jean. At times you get second-hand embarrassment from her actions, but it only adds to the comedy in the movie. Everyone loves seeing the shy girl get the guy.

Lara Jean's love for Peter sort of snuck up on her, in a way that I think it does to everyone. Honestly, Peter is every girl's dream guy: hot, funny, and caring. In typical rom-com fashion, the cool guy ends up with the total opposite "nobody" girl. But in this movie, every person that watches it falls in love with this guy too. He can do no wrong, especially because he's a genuinely nice person to everyone, even Lara Jean's annoying little sister.

This movie is actually based on a book by Jenny Han, and I couldn't put the book down once I started reading it. There's more! The book is just the first part of a trilogy that Netflix hopefully continues to produce.

At times I cringed at how awkward Lara Jean was or swooned watching Peter. This movie, though terribly predictable, makes me root for their budding relationship and love. You always want the guy to get the girl. In movies like this, you are always waiting for the moment the main characters realize they're crazy in love with each other. This movie starts out because Lara Jean wrote love letters to her crushes, a seemingly plausible way to deal with emotion, but addressing them seems overkill. Nevertheless, look what came out of it! Amazing things can happen when you least expect it. Especially when Peter Kavinsky is involved, we all want something amazing to happen for us as well.

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