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3 Ogo 2022 · With Aster, she comes to terms with her sexuality, and in Paul, she finds a friendship that gives her a sense of completeness. At the beginning of the film, the question is who will end up with whom, which is what most teen rom-coms invest themselves in.
1 Mei 2020 · Writer-director Alice Wu breaks down the ending of her Netflix movie, The Half Of It, and reveals why this is an especially hopeful ending for Ellie.
1 Mei 2020 · The actual ending of The Half of It isn’t bad. But to get there, it has to take some big leaps of logic. The moment when The Half of It started to head south was in the wake of Paul scoring the...
The Half of It does not at first seem like it's all that explicitly about homophobic religious conservatism, but the politics of the town are baked into the visual iconography of Wu's...
Sliding the curtains of an authentic rom-com, The Half of It is a journey of friendship and identity more than love. The central idea is to love someone, you must love yourself enough. To find a better half, you need to nourish the half you hold within you. And in this, friendship and opening your heart to someone plays a big role.
29 Mei 2020 · In The Half of It, Alice Wu invokes Plato's The Symposium—elevating high-school romance into a philosophical exploration of six definitions of "love."
28 Apr 2020 · The Half of It is about the quiet heartache of being an outsider. Before meeting Paul, Ellie has no friends other than her father, who raises her alone. Her classmates refer to her as “the Chinese girl.” Ellie doesn’t dream past the borders of her town, not even for college. It’s ironic, considering she and her dad run the city’s train station.
