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Everything, Everything (2017/Warner Blu-ray w/DVD)



Picture: A/B- Sound: B+/C+ Extras: C Film: B+



For 17 years, Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) has lived inside a house with her air, light and water all filtered. Diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) she is unable to live in the outside world, to go outside would mean the death of her. Her only window to the outside world are books and pictures and the internet... that is until a new neighbor moves in next door, a cute boy named Olly (Nick Robinson). For the first time, Maddy desires to go outside ...and is willing to risk it all for love in Stella Meghie's Everything, Everything (2017).


Maddy has literally lived in a bubble all this time, dreaming of the outside world, wondering what it is to feel a breeze, walk on sand, touch the ocean waves or feel the warmth of another person. However, she can not survive in the outside world, the slightest germ or disease could mean the death of her. When she meets Olly, she falls hard for him and together the start a secret friendship. Soon, they want more than just to see each other or text one another, they are willing to take the risk for Maddy to step outside ...to risk everything so they may be together.


This was a feel good romantic movie, it raises the moral question would you rather live a single day with someone you love (and then die), or spend a lifetime without ever being able to touch or be with them? You can read, study and look at things in a book, but it will never be the same as if you experience it. Life needs to be lived and experienced, because without experiences ...life would have absolutely no meaning.


Of course, this will sound like The Boy In The Plastic Bubble with John Travolta, one of the most successful TV movies for all time and its a fair comparison, but its not a remake. Anika Noni Rose and Taylor Hickson lead the supporting cast.


The 1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer is an all digital shoot on the Blu-ray and looks as good as it possibly can in the format, clear, consistent and impressive, leaving the anamorphically enhanced DVD image version struggling to compete. The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix on the Blu-ray is not bad for a dialogue-driven drama, well recorded overall. The lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is much weaker on the DVD, but passable. Extras include Trapped in Love: The Story of Everything, Everything, deleted scenes and trailers. A nice softcover novel of the film is also sold separately.



- Ricky Chiang


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