I just saw this! And I was impressed too by how much time they spent talking to each other--I really liked that. I **really** liked Peter a lot. I think he was my favorite character, actually.
I really liked the sister relationships too, and the fact that in spite of everything, the relationships were, and stayed, really strong. Margot didn't get much screen time, but she endeared herself to me at the very beginning when she directed her sisters to be nice about their dad's latest attempt at Korean cooking. It was a family where everyone was working hard at supporting each other--and not always succeeding, which is real too--but still trying.
I was somewhat frustrated by Lara Jean, though. I couldn't buy her saying that the reasons she'd never had a boyfriend was because no one ever liked her. This is a girl who's had a boy for a best friend as a kid and up and asked Lucas to dance with her--so she doesn't seem like the sort of person who'd have the impression that she had to sit on the shelf waiting for someone to pick her. And it was hard for me to credit how blind she was with regard to Peter's feelings for her. [Tangent: And why do people in these sorts of movies always believe untrustworthy, cruel people with ulterior motives to cause problems (Gen) over people they've come to know and care for in a real way (Peter)?]
... That comes off as overly negative about her, though. I loved her interactions with Peter when it was the two of them getting to know each other, and I liked her interactions with Lucas and with her sisters very much.
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Date: 2018-08-23 02:15 pm (UTC)I really liked the sister relationships too, and the fact that in spite of everything, the relationships were, and stayed, really strong. Margot didn't get much screen time, but she endeared herself to me at the very beginning when she directed her sisters to be nice about their dad's latest attempt at Korean cooking. It was a family where everyone was working hard at supporting each other--and not always succeeding, which is real too--but still trying.
I was somewhat frustrated by Lara Jean, though. I couldn't buy her saying that the reasons she'd never had a boyfriend was because no one ever liked her. This is a girl who's had a boy for a best friend as a kid and up and asked Lucas to dance with her--so she doesn't seem like the sort of person who'd have the impression that she had to sit on the shelf waiting for someone to pick her. And it was hard for me to credit how blind she was with regard to Peter's feelings for her. [Tangent: And why do people in these sorts of movies always believe untrustworthy, cruel people with ulterior motives to cause problems (Gen) over people they've come to know and care for in a real way (Peter)?]
... That comes off as overly negative about her, though. I loved her interactions with Peter when it was the two of them getting to know each other, and I liked her interactions with Lucas and with her sisters very much.