bethgstories

I saw Five Feet Apart last week, and I've been wanting to see it ever since I saw its trailer back in January. Cole Sprouse is devastatingly handsome, that I must say, but it's their nasal cannulas that sold me. Living with an autoimmune disease for more than six years now has made my heart ache for sick flicks, and live precariously through the characters' triumphs and misfortunes in romance.  Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) has been spending her teenage life in the hospital as she's a cystic fibrosis patient, and despite that, she's trying to live life as much as she could. She was under a medical experiment along with her fellow patient/best friend Poe (Moises Arias) when she meets Will (Cole Sprouse) , another cystic fibrosis patient--a rebel and without a hint of care in the world. They try to survive their romance by defying the six-feet-apart rule, by making it one foot short, hence, the title. Cystic fibrosis is different from myasthenia gravis, apart from t...