![]() ![]() ![]() Margo as a character is supposed to be this enigmatic, alluring siren whose mysterious and adventurous life draws you to her like a magnet. The problem is that Nat Wolff ( The Fault in Our Stars) borders pretty strongly into “romantic heartthrob land.” He acts his role pretty well, though, and the tone of his “nerdiness” is rescued somewhat with the interactions his character has with his two teen dude friends. Our lead is supposed to be the stereotypical “lovable loser” kind of character. I’m struggling to articulate exactly what the problem is, overall, with the film, but perhaps we could start here. Because he is certain they are meant to be together (based primarily on the fact that he thinks they are the only two teens to think deeply about things and to find the world shallow), he and his two buddies make the road trip to find her. Q is convinced she has left him a series of clues to follow and that she is waiting for him in a little town in New York. ![]() Her parents don’t seem hugely concerned though because apparently she disappears quite often on grand and dangerous adventures. She moves into the house across the street from Q and one night, knocks on his bedroom window because she needs him to drive her around town to act out various acts of revenge on her ex-boyfriend. We are then left to believe that Margo is his. He tells us early in the story that every person gets a miracle. ![]() Paper Towns, written by the awesome John Green, is the story of Quentin (Q, as Margo likes to call him) and his romantic obsession with the enigmatic Margo. ![]()
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