Helmer Hannah Marks and stars Cho and Mia Isaac unpack the significance of the movie's 'really beautiful' and heartbreakingly surprising turning point.
Max has kept his condition — and his plans to decline treatment and use his last year to prepare her for a life without him — a secret from his daughter. But when he reveals it to Wally after a heartbreaking conversation with her mom, the young teen’s initial reaction curdles into a heated confrontation and a fender bender before the two are ultimately brought closer than they’ve ever been.
Marks acknowledges that the moment is a “slow realization” with hints and “little seeds planted” throughout the film. That includes how the team visually conveys Wally’s symptoms. “A lot of her illness manifests itself in a way that feels like normal teenage anxiety or panic, but they’re actually symptoms of something that’s physically wrong with her,” Marks says.
“Max spends the whole movie trying to protect Wally and trying to do whatever he can to make sure that she’s going to be OK when he passes away. So he has this idea in his head that he’s going to be able to protect her from life,” Isaac says. “I think the big message of the story is that you can’t always protect your children from everything. Sometimes the only thing you can do is just live with them and try to guide them through the things that they’re experiencing and learn from them.
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