PODCAST – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Two Levels of Structure

Every single thing about how this movie was constructed is basically telling you that this girl is going to die. And there's an interesting thing that happens to an audience when they know they're watching a movie that's going to hurt them: they start to put a little cocoon around themselves to protect themselves from getting hurt.

Whether you loved or hated Me and Earl and the Dying Girl-- whether you were part of the crowd that was ready to stand up and cheer at the Sundance premiere (after which the film was immediately snagged up after a fierce bidding war) or whether you're one of the more skeptical audience members who have accused the film of being cliché in its depiction of Earl and of its self-aware film references-- one thing that you have to admit about Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is that, for all its humor and all its fun, ultimately the movie is devastating.

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