![]() ![]() Or maybe she needs to teach him life lessons-which she explicitly states-about being spontaneous, embracing the moment, and not living in fear. One night senior year of high school, Margo recruits Quentin to help her with a revenge plot against a cheating boyfriend because she needs his car. I spent most of Paper Towns, which is directed by Jake Schreier and adapted by John Green’s YA novel of the same name, wishing that Margo were a figment of Quentin’s imagination-that the movie were a kind of teen Fight Club, with a twist. She’s also completely unbelievable as a human being. She’s the kind of girl who wears coonskin caps just because, who rides a bike without a helmet, and who randomly capitalizes letters in words, because grammar is just so bourgeois. ![]() ![]() Margo is a rebel, a rulebreaker, a self-styled girl of mystery. Here’s that premise: Young Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) has always been in love with his beautiful, elusive neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevinge). Yes, I know those sort of seem like dealbreakers, but the things I liked about Paper Towns marginally outweighed the things I didn’t like. I like everything about Paper Towns except for its premise and central romance. ![]()
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