A teen with OCD gets flattened in this unconvincing adaptation of John Green's YA novel. Our Turtles All the Way Down review:
, Elaine Scarry writes, “To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.” Much of the point ofis to make the pain of feeling—and living with—mental illness intelligible to readers. It all takes place in Indianapolis high schooler Aza Holmes’ head, her panic attacks mingling with narration as she fails to live up to her literary namesake.
Aza is pulled through the typical narrative beats of high school by her best friend, accomplice and platonic soulmate Daisy .takes a turn towards mystery when the girls learn that a local billionaire is missing, and Aza happens to have once befriended his son at a camp for children with a deceased parent. Their investigation immediately thwarted, the scion Davis Pickett enters Aza’s story as a crush. Caught between the two, she breaks.
She’s lived like this for years, but as the future of her story forks with college looming and new relationships blooming, Aza’s caught battling against the tide of narrative being projected onto her. Daisy’s empathy and patience are strained; Davis’ courtship pushes too far towards a normalcy she cannot manifest; Aza’s dissociation reaches levels of self-harm.
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