Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is an adaptation of a young adult novel about friendship in the midst of a terminal illness, which is actually popular in the film industry right now. But one of the many refreshing pleasures of this film is its different take from the usual young adult adaptations. Though all of the teen dramedy tropes are still present, it doesn’t succumbed to cliches that we have seen so many times in other teen cancer…

My friend Tin and I were just randomly talking about songs and musicals when she talked about this movie and recommended it to me. That was months ago. Thanks to the rain and the quite lonely feeling I felt earlier (Haha!), I was compelled to finally watch this movie.

I love the songs in the movie. They remind me of the music of The Civil Wars band. I have already been listening to the songs way before but listening to…