In “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” (2018), we first see our protagonist Lara Jean in her own fantasies. She’s engaged in that familiar teen pastime of reading a romance novel while casting herself and one of her crushes in the lead roles. This non-diegetic “dream sequence” and its sudden interruption by the intrusionContinue reading “Wrap Up of “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before””
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Read This Before You Watch “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”
Based on Jenny Han’s 2014 YA novel with the same title, the teen romantic comedy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” has been winning hearts and making fans ever since its release by Netflix in 2018. Han reportedly turned down offers from other production companies that would not promise to cast an Asian-American actressContinue reading “Read This Before You Watch “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before””
Discussion Questions for “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”
Write a paragraph or two in response to the following prompts. How does this movie introduce us to its protagonist, Lara Jean? What is she doing when we first see her? What sort of a sister and daughter is she? What are her hopes and dreams? What are her concerns and her fears? What thingsContinue reading “Discussion Questions for “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before””
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