Followers of the brand new Netflix rom-com “The Half of It” are hoping the movie really is just half of the story.
The film premiered Friday and has not solely wowed critics — it at present has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes — but in addition discovered a fan following that's already screaming for a sequel.
And it raked up a serious award: on Wednesday the Tribeca Movie Pageant — which is bestowing awards just about this yr as a result of coronavirus pandemic — gave it the Founders Award for Greatest U.S. Narrative Characteristic.
Within the film, directed by Alice Wu (“Saving Face”), Leah Lewis performs Ellie Chu, a sensible — and closeted — Chinese language-American teen within the Pacific Northwest. She agrees to jot down love letters for a dim jock named Paul (Daniel Diemer), who desires to win the guts of Aster (Alexxis Lemire) however doesn’t fairly have the phrase abilities for it.
Naturally, there's a twist: Ellie finds herself falling for Aster, too.
Viewers are applauding the queer coming-of-age story on Twitter with extreme reward, to not point out all-caps declarations and loads of exclamation factors.
“I KNOW ITS BEEN OUT FOR ONLY AN HOUR BUT GIVE THE HALF OF IT A SEQUEL,” mentioned one viewer who apparently received up earlier than daybreak to take a look at the teenager flick.
“Simply noticed #TheHalfOfIt and I simply wanna say I NEED A SEQUEL ASAP!!! Ellie and Aster are all the pieces!!!!” wrote one fan. One other emotional poster mentioned the movie “left my coronary heart feeling extremely full however empty on the similar time and that’s how 1) that it’s unimaginable and actually touches you on a profound human degree and a couple of) THAT WE NEED A SEQUEL.”
One Twitter devotee thought the filmmaker was being fairly apparent about her intentions from the beginning, saying, “Don’t you assume Alice Wu is hinting a sequel for #TheHalfOfIt ? I imply, it’s within the title.”
They might have some extent. With out spoiling an excessive amount of, the top of the film does appear to trace of a possible new storyline that might happen, within the phrases of 1 character, “in a pair years.” One fan prompt that's the film’s means of “lowkey dropping indicators” {that a} sequel is a performed deal.
Whereas director Wu has been mum on whether or not a sequel really is within the works, followers might have an opportunity to ask her about it themselves at eight p.m. ET Friday evening when she and the forged “will probably be watching alongside and fascinating” throughout a “viewing celebration.”
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