Finding Happiness in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

Happiness of the ending likely be a matter of perspectives. But Green says ultimately comes down to from his young-adult bestseller, "Any time you end a story knowing how much you were loved, that's a happy ending." 

Does 'The Fault in Our Stars' have a happy ending? Some people say yes, as every great romance has its happily-ever-after ending. It can be see from the new movie adapted from John Green's young-adult bestseller, The Fault in Our Stars. The movie tells a love story about two teens with cancer. 

Considered as they lay on the worst condition that the young lovers has complicated by Cancer, of course this movie sets out to make you cry. Like the book, it is also true that the movie is like that the world is not a wish-granting factory. It's an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears.

Much of the film has also shows you the looming presence of death is never far away. Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus "Gus" Waters, two lovers in dangerous times, know from the start that one will likely lose the other. That is hard not to say the movie was sad. But it's considered as a hopeful ending.

The Fault in Our Stars

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Directed by Josh Boone; written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the novel by John Green; director of photography, Ben Richardson; edited by Robb Sullivan; music by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott; production design by Molly Hughes; costumes by Mary Claire Hannan; produced by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen; released by 20th Century Fox. Running time: 2 hours 5 minutes.

WITH: Shailene Woodley (Hazel Grace Lancaster), Ansel Elgort (Augustus Waters), Laura Dern (Frannie), Sam Trammell (Michael), Nat Wolff (Isaac) and Willem Dafoe (Peter Van Houten).

It is also a perfect and irresistible fantasy, a tragic love story. Hazel and Gus possess an absolute moral authority, an ability to assert the truth of their experience that few can share and many might covet. 

They know the meaning of their own lives, and try as it might, the movie can’t help but give cancer credit for this state of perfection. There is something disturbing about when you find the loudest weeping from your own.