By: Amanda Guarragi
To All The Boys: Always and Forever is a pretty fun final installment to the trilogy. After watching our girl, Lara Jean Covey choose Peter Kavinsky over John Ambrose (which was a mistake), we all wanted to see how LJ and PK would end up. Let’s face it, even though some of us (especially me) dislike Valentine’s Day… we still love our romance films. The beauty of rom-coms is that they can take you out of reality for a bit. They can give you a wonderful lead saying the cheesiest, most romantic lines, and we’ll buy it.
What is so wonderful about this trilogy is that it brought life back into the genre. For the past three years, LJ (Lana Condor) and Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) have grown together BUT they have also grown as individuals. This film also takes you back to your senior year and how stressful everything can be. Their relationship is put to the test but they never fail to be absolutely adorable with each other. That’s the magic Lana Condor brings to the screen, so the way Noah Centineo looks at her is totally relatable. Condor holds this film together. She has carried the trilogy from the very beginning because of her spirit.
Like any other teenage romantic comedy, it comes with difficult decisions and life lessons. It is no lie that teenagers are too young to make these life changing decisions but they are all forced to. How are they supposed to know what we want in life? The one thing that I really appreciated from this film is the focus on Lara Jean’s future and what she wanted. Sometimes relationships can cloud your judgement and affect your decisions. Teenagers are constantly faced with difficult decisions and are even more emotional than adults. Everything feels like the end of the world but life is just beginning. When we see Lara Jean take her schooling seriously, instead of thinking about Kavinsky, we see a different side of her that we haven’t seen.
To All the Boys: Always and Forever is Lana Condor’s trilogy and without her none of it works. She has this bright, beautiful, compassionate spirit and she will make you fall in love, with love. As we all know, I am a sucker for the friends to lovers trope and this trilogy started out with a contract. The way this film ends ties everything together and it is a full circle moment. Romantic comedies have been revived through this trilogy and hopefully we can get more of these films. We need more fun, sweet and heartwarming films in our lives.
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