Chemical Hearts

A teen drama movie based on a book. How can we get over that love that hurt us? In this movie you won't know. It is about a boy who meets a girl and falls in love with her, while discovering his past. Parsimonious. Quality. She talks about how sometimes we cannot forget the damage we have done or the damage they did to us, although she succeeds in doing it, she does not show how to overcome it, she becomes more and more stuck in her central idea. It is not your typical teenage story. At times it may seem silly and toxic, the message it tries is good but the situations and how to get there are not. Avoidable. It's like a sleeping pill in the middle of the movie, it has a good opening and a little closing, but it falls off in the middle. She tries to look smart and is only ostentatious because she can't. The book may try something else but the film does not and stays in the attempt.

This is a really good movie, better than I expected. I like Lili Reinhart, having watched her as Betty in "Riverdale", she also was a producer for this new-release movie on Amazon streaming. Set and filmed in New Jersey, she is high school senior Grace Town, new to this school, with a limp and a cane.

Austin Abrams is Henry Page, also a senior and newly appointed school newspaper editor. Grace and Henry become friends and then more, but Grace always seems distant, something is bothering her, she doesn't speak about it easily. It is wrapped up in the bad wreck about a year earlier that killed her friend and cut her track career short.

The title is a reference to several things, one a comment made early while looking at the night sky, that we are just molecules, chemicals, made from exploded star remnants. Another is what Henry's doctor sister says about chemical changes in the minds of teenagers, as they start to leave behind childhood and cope with what it means to be a young adult. Teenagers develop Chemical Hearts.

The movie doesn't have a wrapped up, happily ever after ending but it does have Henry and Grace each headed in perhaps better directions, preparing for young adulthood. My wife and I watched it at home on Amazon streaming.

It avoids the typical teenage romance genre clichés and instead focuses on character development and how relationships at a young age shape individuals into who they become as they grow older Great soundtrack and performances by the lead pair

To be frank, there is no any solid plot in the movie but then also it's watchable as its pretty, cute.

Chemical Hearts, is a film which is told from the films main character Henry's(Austin Abrams) point of view and he narrates the story and we get to know his world. It's a high school romance. Grace(Lilli Reinhart) meets Henry in school and soon Henry realizes there is something intriguing, mystry surrounding Grace.

I loved Henry's character as he was polite, well mannered and talks like most of the confused student does in their school days. Grace character was good but dosent stands out.

I agree the film seems confused most of the time and things looked undercooked and most of the scene would make zero sense. But then the chemistry between the leads is really good and some people will agree there is a certain strangeness to the story telling process which looks good to some extent.

Richard Tanne work is average at best. Actors Austin Abrams and Lili Reinhart did good in the movie.

Inspite of its shortcomings and all the flaws(there are many), I enjoyed the movie. Some scenes bored me but it was a decent watch.

Lost my words...

A deep embodiment of what it is to forget who you used to be. Dealing with the unknown, people tend to forget who they were or who they wanted to be. Watch this movie through the eyes of your old teen self. As someone that needs to learn more of what no one, but life itself, can teach us. Give it a chance.