If I Stay–A Movie Review

Tonight I took a much needed break from homework and watched the movie If I Stay. It's been awhile since a movie has rocked my emotions. I'm pretty sure I cried out a whole ocean. I'm sure some of you are already rolling your eyes, but hear me out. This movie didn't have the typical boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl break up, boy and girl get back together storyline. It was a lot deeper, a storyline to make you appreciate what you have and not take it for granted.

**WARNING—SPOILER!!!!**

Chloe Grace Moretz plays Mia, a regular high school girl that plays the cello. She meets a boy named Adam who plays in a band—who plays completely different music than Mia is into. 

The storyline takes us through the struggles of following their dreams while still being together. Mia and Adam make plans to go to College together, but plans take a turn when Adam's band gets signed and Mia gets an audition for Juilliard—a prestigious music school. There love is tested since Adam doesn't want to do the whole long distance thing, and Mia won't compromise her dreams.

So here's the plot twist: Mia, her mother, father and brother all get in the car to go to an event, and on the way, the car crashes. Mia has an out of body experience, and suddenly she is watching herself on the ground bleeding and unconscious in the aftermaths of the crash. She overlooks her mother, father and brother being brought into the hospital, and one by one, they all die.

Gut wrenching.

After watching her family die, Mia believes that she has nothing to live for. She knows that she gets to choose if she stays on earth or if she goes to Heaven, but she can't seem to get to either one. Mia must decide whether she will die with her parents and brother, or live and stay with Adam and the rest of her support system.

I won't tell you the end, because that's ridiculously rude to spoil it, but it made me think of what I would choose if I was faced with the same decision (I know—it's a movie...)

What would you do? Would you be able to live life after everything was taken away from you? It's not far fetched from what people experience here on earth, in different situations and all over the world. 

Watching these kind of movies truly puts things into perspective. I've seen too many lives being taken, and families suffering. I just want to remind everyone to love deep and love hard, respect family and friends, and make the most of every minute with your loved ones. 

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“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.” 
― Mia, If I Stay

“All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know that your life if fucked up no matter what now, forever. And I'm not dumb enough to think that I can undo that, that anyone can. But I can't wrap my mind around the notion of you not getting old, having kids, going to Juilliard, getting to play that cello in front of a huge audience, so that they can get the chills the way I do every time I see you pick up your bow, every time I see you smile at me.” 
― Adam, If I Stay