Two individuals with different backgrounds ... yes you've probably heard the story before. And yes Shakespeare (and others I reckon) have done amazing work with that premise. So if you compare it with masterpieces ... well this won't fair too good.
Having said that, if you can free yourself from any comparisons (or at least most of them), you can have some fun with this version of the class war ... and love. Not too much war going on I reckon.
It's a decent effort that targets a teenage audience. So if you are the target audience, you may like this more than others here.
Plot summary
Elisabeth and John John are raised in the same city, yet they live light years apart, separated economically, socially and culturally. That is until the day they start in the same high school class.
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August 09, 2023 at 04:14 AM
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JJ and E like ...
Not very good
There wasn't a lot of good things about this movie. The only "good" thing to me was the visuals. For example the party in the woods. The visuals in that scene were pretty decent.
There were a lot of bad things. Elisabeth feels dead, she has no personality and no real character development. When JJ and Elisabeth got robbed she got mad at JJ for not giving the robbers his watch but then defended him when her dad said that he doesn't want her to be with him. That makes no sense.
The side stories in this movie are so unnecessary, for example the part where Elisabeth's grandmother didn't want to sell their summer house but her dad wanted to. There is nothing else said about it and it brings nothing to the story.
Sometimes the story went by a little too fast, for example when Sluggo talked to the guy that was harrassing his girlfriend, that came out of nowhere.
I also feel like JJ's and Elisabeth's love is too fast. Just a few weeks go by and they are already having sex.
The ending is pretty weird too. JJ points a gun at the guy who killed Sluggo but then he called the police. There is nothing to show that he changed his mind since he wanted to shoot the guy in the beginning but then he didn't.
I watched it
Overall i kinda liked it, but with a Netfilx budget a few adjustments here and there could have made this movie even more pleasing on the eye.
Its a good youth love story and different cultures meet.
Worth your time
Check it out.