Parents need to know that Five Feet Apart is based on the best-selling YA novel about Will (Cole Sprouse) and Stella (Haley Lu Richardson), two hospitalized 17-year-olds with cystic fibrosis (CF) who fall in love. Since the guideline for CF patients is that they should stay a minimum of six feet apart from each other due to the danger of cross-infection, the title refers to the one foot the pair "take back" to be a tiny bit closer as their love story develops. Language isn't frequent but includes a use of "f---ing," plus "s--t," "bulls--t," "a--hole," etc., and a few references to sex (or lack thereof). Will and Stella aren't supposed to touch, much less kiss (saliva exchange would be deadly, as one of them has a serious bacterial infection), so there's no sex, although they do undress down to their underwear in one romantic scene. The movie, which had a CF consultant, has been divisive within the CF community; some members are happy to see more awareness for the disease, which affects about 30,000 in the U.S., and others worry that the movie romanticizes the illness or misleads able-bodied audiences. Ultimately, the story promotes treasuring those closest to you and has themes of perseverance and empathy.
FIVE FEET APART is one of a growing number of YA book-to-screen adaptations about teens who fall in love under life-and-death circumstances. Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) is a kind, rule-following 17-year-old cystic fibrosis (CF) patient who's back in the hospital for a "tune up" when she meets rule-breaking 17-year-old Will (Cole Sprouse), who also has CF and is in the hospital. CF patients are supposed to stay at least six feet apart from one another to avoid contagious infections that could worsen their already precarious condition. Stella is patiently awaiting a lung transplant, while Will, who's tested positive for a dangerous bacteria called B. cepacia, can barely remember to take his meds. The two begin a tentative friendship and flirtation that eventually (and predictably) leads to romance. Stella helps Will be more disciplined with his treatments, and he helps her learn to seize the day. But the seemingly insurmountable question remains: Can two people who can't touch really be together?
Five Feet Apart English Stream
"Most of them stood about five feet away, where they could scrutinize the bicycle, my shirt, my trousers, my shoes, my hair, my pen, and my watch, but a few of the braver ones came up to where they could practically touch me in order to see what held the belt up or what function my socks performed."
In an essay, Vines and Climbing Plants," Downing praised the Virginiacreeper (Ampelopsis hederacea). Calling it the American ivy andcomparing it to English ivy. he wrote,The leaves are as large as the hand, deeply divided into five lobes,and the blossoms are succeeded by handsome dark blue berries. TheVirginia Creeper is a most luxuriant grower, and we have seen itclimbing to the extremities of trees 70 or 80 feet in height. Like theIvy, it attaches itself to whatever it can lay hold of, by littlerootlets which spring out of the branches; and its foliage, when itclothes thickly a high wall, or folds itself in clustering wreathsaround the trunk and branches of an open tree, is extremely handsome andshowy. Although the leaves are not evergreen, like those of the Ivy, yetin autumn they far surpass those of that plant in rich and gorgeouscoloring which they then assume. [27]
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