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Five Feet Apart
The movie “Five Feet Apart” starring Cole Sprouse will be coming out in a couple of months. When the trailer was released, it struck a chord in the CF community, essentially dividing the community in two.
- What are your initial thoughts on the upcoming movie?
- How do you hope they portray CF on the silver screen?
- Any other thoughts?
(Be polite here!)
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I’m not a fan of it, which is ironic because Holden Caulfield is my favorite literary character of all time and this guy is Holden, but with CF. While I do respect and appreciate the filmmakers for reaching out to people with CF, I have a feeling this will still be botched somehow. I also think they should’ve given one of the leads to a person with CF.
I hope that they portray CF with care and some accuracy. It’s Hollywood so, I know that there will be some aspects that are dramatized and I fully expect that. I don’t expect them to be coughing up blood or using the bathroom every 10 minutes, but I hope for some accuracy.
I just want to go back to my prior point and say that I wish people with CF were given an opportunity to star in the movie. I think we need some form of equal representation across all platforms and across all sects of society. We need to make our voices be heard. I stumbled across an old poem I wrote when I was in college about being represented in media. Red Band Society had just seen its brief time on air and I felt that it wasn’t a realistic portrayal. I just hope that these media conglomerates can let our voices be heard because personal blogs can only go so far.
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