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Plot |
Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz) is in a car accident with her mother Kat (Mireille Enos), her father Denny (Joshua Leonard) and her brother Teddy (Jakob Davies). She is the only one who survives the accident. She is able to experience the ordeal in an outer body state and travel about the hospital eavesdropping on conversations. The movie juxtaposes this part of the film with glimpses of moments in scenes of events that occurred before this accident of Mia’s life with the time of the people that she cared about and the family that she lost in the accident. She seems to have the power to decide if she is going to wake up and fight to continue live her life with the ones that are still there for her or slip away into the hereafter. The question is: If I stay? |
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Character Development |
Mia Hall love interest is Adam (Jamie Blackley) and together their relationship makes up the core of the film. From their beginnings and through their struggles and the moments at her bedside at the hospital - this is the path the film takes you on that is much of their story and little does deviate from this course. |
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Acting |
There were many moments of some wonderful acting with some great showing of song and singing and music playing. It is questionable that all the performances are performed by the cast, but still is made believable on film and the end result was quite moving just the same. |
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Overview |
Outside of Mia relationship with Adam, she struggles with her playing the cello and how her love of classic music differs with that of her family and her boyfriend. The minor conflict is playing in the background behind her overall feeling of Adam and how her love of music will not blend with that of his. This is an interesting conflict that I haven’t seen before, and mixed with the outer body experience which is more or less well known work very well in a new and fresh way. Then the story has a delightful blend of mixing past and current events together with a desirable effect. The film is able to take an element that has been done before and make it special with some added flare. |
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