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As high school seniors, they don't even acknowledge each other anymore. It was friendship for her and then it wasn't even that. Both kids were in elementary school, but it was love at first sight for him. Quentin "Q" Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) fell in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman (model-singer-actress Cara Delevingne) when her family moved in across the street from his. But the story begins in Orlando, Florida. One such paper town is Agloe (in New York State's Catskill Mountains), which is where the story's climax takes place. These plagiarism traps have several names, including paper towns. The title is a reference to the cartographers' practice of putting fake places onto the maps they make to deter copyright infringement (or catch anyone who does such infringing). The title also carries a literal real-world meaning. In the eyes of one of the story's central characters, paper towns are cities in which people ("paper people") go about their hum-drum lives without really living.
#Paper towns movie#
Onward and upward The movie takes its title from the 2008 book by John Green (author of "The Fault in Our Stars"). And whether you think the book was better than the movie or the movie was better than the book is irrelevant. Still, I do owe you more than that, so, as always, I'll tell you about the actors and the plot (without spoilers), I'll explain the grade I've given the movie, including what I think wasn't good and what was good (because, after all, there's some of both in almost every movie). I say all that to say this: "Live life to the fullest." There. Although I haven't read the book, I have read enough about the book to compare them, but I'm still only judging what appeared on screen. Take the movie "Paper Towns" (PG-13, 1:49) for example. Now, if I haven't read the book, after I see the movie, I'll do some background research on the differences between the two so I can include that information in my review, but I'm still only going to judge aspects of the movie as they contribute to the whole. A movie has to stand on its own, whether the viewer has read the book or not (and, usually, the majority haven't). Here's why: A movie reviewer reviews movies, not books. I don't think it's necessary for the reviewer to read the book before reviewing the movie. When reviewing a movie based on a book, should the reviewer make the movie's story part of the commentary, even if the movie's plot matches the book's plot closely? I say yes.