(I also didn’t understand why they would fight over Peter because I personally found him creepy and his relationship with Lara Jean cringey.) I was especially sad that Lara Jean and Genevieve’s relationship was based on fighting over a boy, rather than an exploration of the ties that remained between them even after their friendship fell apart. The removal of the quirks of the characters left them as stereotypical high school tropes: Chris as the tough and edgy best friend identifiable by her dark eyeshadow and Genevieve as the pretty, blonde ex-friend/girlfriend and mean girl who serves primarily as a source for jealousy. Lana Condor as Lara Jean in the film “P.S.

With the exclusion and underdevelopment of this and other plot points, such as the USO party, what remained was an almost exclusive focus on drama, jealousy and which characters were dating. The movie left out the game of assassin, for example, which showed the personalities of the characters, as well as the lasting ties between them and how their relationships changed over time.

The plot of the movie generally didn’t stray too far from that of the book, yet some of the book’s strongest aspects, those that gave characters their complexity and the book its charm, were excluded. I Still Love You” the best out of the three books, I found its movie immensely frustrating to watch. However, Genevieve, Lara Jean’s ex-best friend, who is ever-so-coincidentally also Peter’s ex-girlfriend, as well as John Ambrose, another recipient of Lara Jean’s love letters, may get in the way.Īlthough I liked “P.S. I Still Love You,” sequel to “ To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and based on the book trilogy by Jenny Han, picks up where the first movie ended, with Lara Jean in a newly real relationship with Peter. It is too bad that Lana Condor, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart and Julie Tao, who play every speaking Korean role in the film, cannot relate, as none of them are Korean. “What a wild week to be Korean!” proclaims one Twitter user. I Still Love You,” which features a half-Korean protagonist, comes out on Netflix. Three days ago, Bong Joon-ho’s “ Parasite” won four Oscars.

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