Five Feet Apart: Teen romance riddled with clichés

Five Feet Apart: Teen romance riddled with clichés

You could say the terminally ill teen romance genre makes a mockery of its subjects. It’s a time in our lives when our emotions are so unwieldy that every decision feels like life or death. So why not throw a deadly disease into all those adolescent dramas? Hollywood has cashed in on all our tears and snotty tissues – from A Walk to Remember to The Fault in Our Stars – and we’ve eagerly lapped up every emotional manipulation.

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