![]() ![]() Then Came You rises above the predictable, banal STFs by redefining how it expresses love. Wrapped up with a weepy flashback when Skye does bite the dust Then Came You does for the most part ace the STF curriculum. Selling fast food in a chicken and hot dog suit! Graffiting an alley wall.) and there are some plasticky “pearls of wisdom” about living life fearlessly. There’s a syrupy sweet but entertaining montage of Calvin and Skye knocking off the items on the bucket list (Driving in a firetruck. It has its moments where it does skip along the path of tried-and-true STF storytelling. Refreshingly, Then Came You largely swerves away from the gimmicky STF dramedy narrative. Think, The Fault in Our Stars, Midnight Sun and Five Feet Apart. In one instance, she shares her realistic, and even cautionary perspective towards Izzy’s sudden interest in Calvin, “What if Izzy only likes you for your cancer? Some people really get off on that shit.” Preach, sister!Īs a general rule, popular “Sick Teen” films (STFs) are often romanticized with paint-by-numbers plots. ![]() Take Skye, although she’s spunky and often unpredictable she has layers that make her grounded and relatable. It’d be far easier to write Calvin and Skye as the tropes they’re inspired by, but instead, the filmmakers (and actors) build off of the archetypes without relying on them. His expressive baby blue eyes convey the uncertainty and undercurrent of sadness he quietly holds inside himself, and the help he needs but cannot voice, more effectively than any line of spoken dialogue can.īutterfield, Williams, director Peter Hutching, and Then Came You writer Fergal Rock bring a down to earth sensibility to the lead characters that keep them from being too much of an extreme. Butterfield especially has a talent for using his eyes. Attuned to his character’s raw pain, he skillfully brings the character to life not just with his interactions with Skye but with his body language and silence performances, and how they transform into something freer, lighter, and brighter as the film progresses. Then Came You ’s second lead, Asa Butterfield, already an accomplished drama actor is also fitting as Calvin. Yes, her quirkiness with a capital Q and her sunshine and sparkles sensibilities are reinforced by her playful hijinks and her fashion choices (hello, cat-eared beanies, knee-high Converse, and electric blue wigs) but Williams brings sensitivity, thoughtfulness, and vulnerability to the character. Manic Pixie Dream Girl as she is at first, Williams keeps Skye from being an infuriating ditz. It’s all due to Maisie Williams who is wonderfully cast in the role. ![]() Whether she’s hooked up to a lie detector just for kicks or showing up at the airport Calvin works at bearing a gift: a goldfish swimming in a bag attached to an IV drip, she’s a lovable riot. Brash, plucky and exuberant Skye both drags the uptight and reluctant Calvin into helping her fulfill her “To Die” list and makes helping him, a textbook hopeless case, get a date with Izzy her personal project, brain tumor be damned.Īs Skye crams years of experiences into the remaining months she has left we root for her. In the final stage of cancer, Skye ( Maisie Williams ) the troublemaker of the support group romps into Calvin’s life with a sugar rush of Manic Pixie Dream Girl energy. Other than mooning over young stewardess Izzy ( Nina Dobrev ) from afar, or whittling wood creations in his garage turned workshop, he mopes around in a rut, living day to day in a life that’s split between the underwhelming monotony of his baggage handling day job, and the all consuming anxiety he feels about dying. With his symptom journal and thermometer in tow at all times (even at a high school kegger) he spends his days mindlessly loading luggage onto planes at an airport with his dad ( David Koechner ) and older brother, Frank ( Tyler Hoechlin ). After all, Calvin’s entire being hinges on his obsessive-compulsive belief that he has a terminal illness. When socially awkward hypochondriac Calvin ( Asa Butterfield ) joins a cancer support group at his exasperated doctor’s insistence he doesn’t expect to get pulled into carrying out a rambunctious cancer-stricken teen’s bucket list. Then Came You is a 2018 dramedy about a spunky teen, terminally ill with brain cancer who recruits a friendless hypochondriac to help her complete her bucket list. ![]()
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