![]() In the middle of the night he drives himself to a gas station to buy (metaphorical) cigarettes, but his body begins to shut down while he’s there and he needs Hazel to rescue him. ![]() But this is the scene where he breaks, and it’s gutting to watch. Throughout Fault in Our Stars, Gus is the personification of strength and confidence. Even for those who knew it was going to happen, watching the scene in the movie was like a punch to the heart. ![]() Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die. If you read the book, you knew this second-act twist was coming, announced from a park bench in Amsterdam after the loveliest date of all lovely dates. It bears repeating: HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR MOTHER TODAY? Anytime they show the parents being sad, it’s unbearable. The camera shows Gus’s parents visibly moved, cinematography doubling as emotional slaughter. Hazel actually doesn’t give the eulogy she originally wrote for Gus, and instead gives a speech that she thinks Gus’s parents would like hearing. ![]() Her mom replies with a speech about how hard it is going to be to move on after Hazel dies, but she’ll “always be your mother.” Laura Dern is heartbreaking in the scene. In a rare act of defiance, Hazel gets in an argument with her parents when she tries to leave the house without dinner and, out of spite, tells her mom that she heard her say that “I’m not going to a mother anymore” thing. I can barely even recap this scene without tearing up. And then she whispers to Hazel that it’s OK to go, to let herself die. “I’m not going to be a mother anymore!” her mother wails. There’s a flashback to Hazel in a hospital in dire, dire health, with everyone around her assuming she’s about to die. “Does my body even have enough water to produce the amount of tears that are about to be necessary?” your mind replies. “You gave me forever within the numbered days and I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity,” Hazel says. So Hazel, while sobbing, reads what she wrote, which is in essence a love letter to the man she knows is the love of her life, and who she knows is about to die. Gus asks Hazel to speak at his eventual funeral, but decides he wants to hear what she has to say first.
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