Ah, young love. Ry Russo-Young’s The Sun is Also a Star is based on the New York Times’ Bestseller by Nicola Yoon. Crafted to make tweens, teens, and romcom fanatics fall in love with the concept of, well, love in a world dominated by diverse issues. The book is based on Yoon’s real-life romance, but the film itself is a messy concept. Derived from bad writing, hinged altogether by cinematographer Autumn Durald (Palo Alto) and editor Joe Landauer the two create a montage of sequences about cultural heritage, the stem of diversity issues, the origins of Koreans in New York, and a little bit about data science and — would you believe that, love at first sight, inserted uncomfortably within those topics.
Russo-Young associates her works with mumblecore and in an attempt to reprise the success of films like Before Sunrise or Sunset, we see two smart teens walking and talking in the busy streets of New York City, talking about a lot of things considered witty but nonetheless irrelevant.
Natasha Kingsley (played by Yara Shahidi) is of Jamaican descent and her family is doomed to be deported in a few hours. Daniel Bae, played by the brooding Charles Melton, is a Korean who’s family’s success in the wig industry has catapulted him to an interview to become a doctor. They walk around New York, one of them is supposedly cynical but completely falls for the charms of the other, and for some reason fate has to adjust for them to fall in love, instead of allowing its magic to work on them in years to come. The magic, albeit cute at times with the two’s undeniable chemistry, wears off the moment we see them forgetting appointments, spending nights in a park even though one of them is literally hours away from being deported.
A lot of romantic films focusing on minimalist characters and conversations have sprung since the dawn of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy. I mean, The Sun is also a Star isn’t so bad. Yet, this film reeks of the allusion that it can mimic the success of those films by bringing together two smart characters talking about everything under the sun. Whereas Jesse and Celine talk about how women are being examined under the male gaze down to their views on religion and the environment, Natasha and Daniel surround themselves with conflicting theories of what little they know about the world, karaoke, and sudden shifts in mood and the inaccuracy of their issues. Tracy Oliver’s screenplay is insensitive to a halt that I cringe upon hearing them pertain to the disaster of 9/11 to destiny in a particular bit before the two characters meet. So it was destined for 9/11 to happen? Tsk, tsk. Not a good thing to say especially in a film that tackles immigrants.
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Although it is filled with cutesy moments, stars and montages of quick-witted remarks about the universe are present, the importance of responsibility and love is disposed. The film tries to be smart about love, casting it with talented actors like Charles Melton and Yara Shahidi, yet it is nowhere near that. Damn, even the initial scenes are stupendous enough to make us forget that they’re both in a rush to fulfill a day loaded with tasks to do: one character even tries to insist that she doesn’t believe in love while the other manages to pass on a day’s work to prove the theory of falling in love within seconds.
Infatuation works best that way. Youngsters will be watching this film and will try to mimic the gimmick and they will fail and that’s what worries me. Love is a beautiful thing, it does not to ruin families, nor should it be a tool to destroy destinies. This film had so much potential, but it was ultimately saved by its beautiful edits and cinematography. Love is a universe all of its own. This film forgets that.
