7/10
Chemical Hearts - Pleasant
23 August 2020
A unique and realistic story line that thankfully avoids exaggerating love and foolish fairy tales that would normally be about unrealistic feelings and 'magic'. The story rather focuses on what most teenagers feel nowadays; attraction, loneliness, guilt, pressure, flaws, exploring of new feelings and then trying to run away from it, young love, unexpected responses and simply pain.

I liked how the character Grace explained what being a teenager is really like. Her character also showed development from guilt, regrets and acceptance of reality. The character of Henry also was seen dealing with his firsts, and also like any teenager the want of something exciting or unusual to happen in life/in his senior years. However, the presentation was little slow and the chemistry between the characters wasn't as much as expected, there was more of awkwardness which was understandable in the beginning but as the story went on, it just got bizarre and more of lost.

I loved Lili's performance, she showed all the emotions needed, completely natural, nothing over the line! I also like the way Austin presented confusion however it really ended up being emotionless and the delivery of the dialogues wasn't as promising as it needed to be.

Overall, it was pleasant and simply realistic, plus point on talking about this topic, but still few parts of it could be improved.
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