![]() ![]() With this said, Irreplaceable You is the first film within this sub-genre that I have seen that explores anticipatory grief. Irreplaceable You doesn’t want you to forget it’s still a romance film at heart. Often these cuts remove you from the grim realities of cancer and you are reminded again that you need to be putting on your rose-tinted glasses. Yet often these scenes of dreary reality are overshadowed with (way too many) cuts to the characters looking at the sunset or happily laughing together. Knowledge of the final outcome fuels the audience to experience a sense of vulnerability and a lack of power alongside Abbie, as she tries to cope with the truth of promised death.Īlthough rife with cheesy platitudes, Irreplaceable You is redeemed in parts by its very honest portrayal of the devastation that cancer can cause. This makes for a more heart-wrenching experience, similar to Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, it is known from the very start that the person diagnosed isn’t going to make it. Giving the audience no ifs or buts, no faith that a cure will be found, instead just an informed look at how the characters choose to spend the time they have left together. Irreplaceable You opens with a modern-day prologue, not too dissimilar to the introduction to Romeo and Juliet, one that lets the audience know that Abbie will eventually die. Coincidentally enough, our protagonist, also shockingly, is diagnosed with cancer at a tragically young age. Two people crazy in love, one terminally ill, one pushing the other away for essentially being a tragedy waiting to happen. Taking all the cliches and conventions we’ve come to expect, thanks to films like The Fault in Our Stars and Now is Good, it’s not hard to make comparisons. Although terribly sad and indeed managing to bring a tear to my eye, it can’t be helped but be said that Irreplaceable You feels like a salvage project. Directed by Stephanie Laing, and starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huisman, Christopher Walken and Steve Coogan.Ĭlearly, this is Netflix’s answer to the curious and peculiar sub-genre of romances that welcome the morbid theme of terminal illness. Netflix delivers a tear jerker sure to soften even the hardest of hearts. This heartbreaking romance follows Sam and Abbie’s life after discovering Abbie is at stage 4 cancer. Irreplaceable You questions the inevitable what ifs? that follow the devastating news of a terminal diagnosis.
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