“The Half of It” /『ハーフ・オブ・イット』(2020)

Let’s just save the words that Ellie Chu delivered right here.

 

Love isn’t patient and kind and humble.
Love is.. messy. And horrible and selfish and.. bold.
It’s not finding your perfect half.
It’s the trying, reaching, and failing.
Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a great one.

—  Ellie Chu  ( “The Half of It” [2020] )

 

「愛とは
素敵な絵を自ら台無しすること。
もっと素晴らしい絵が描けると信じて。」

 

声の高くないアジア系の女の子がフィーチャーされた作品としても本当に価値があるし、
まさにEllieと同じ思春期の頃、哲学に興味を抱いたり、思考を言語化することの面白さを知って日々日記を書いたりしていた私としては、
Ellieという “言葉のdeliverer” が輝くこの作品に、とても勇気づけられます。

世界中に存在するEllieのような若者たちが、皆どうか幸せでありますように。

 

Here are also some great words from the actress Leah Lewis, who played her :

“Most people think a love story has an equation, and that’s usually boy meets girl, girl meets boy, or girl meets girl,”

“It’s a self-love story because these characters don’t really end up with each other, but at the very end, they end up with something. For me, that’s even more valuable than just finding your other half; it’s finding a part of yourself along the way. It is a love story, it’s just not a ‘romance’ story.”

— Leah Lewis ( “Teen Vogue,”  2020-05-01 )

 

There are so many ways to “love”.

 

Big respect to the writer, director of the story, Alice Wu.
Ellie’s story is now seen by millions of people, and so many people are feeling safe, because of your work that you tried to deliver your own story out to this world.

 

When I’m writing, I never think to myself,
“What will the audience think about this?”
The really interesting question is,
“What is the thing you’re dying to say through this character?”
Because you’re the only person who can write that thing.
So write that thing. Don’t write the thing that somebody else could write.

— Alice Wu  ( “Netflix Film Club,” 2020-05-07 )

 

 

 

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