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Why are adults so drawn to teen romances?
Why are we so eager to revisit that old hellscape study halls and lockers and gym?
Possibly we miss having feelings at that level, that cortex-building intensity.
As part of their friendship-turned-courtship, the two show each other films, many shot before they were born.
Of course, Lara Jean and Peter arealsoin conversation with their own cinematic history.
I Still Love You, they were an established couple destabilized by Lara Jeans flirtation with another boy.
Vultures Alison Willmore pointed outin her reviewthat inP.S.
She chose him anyway.
After the sour diversion ofP.S.
I Love You, Always and Foreverreturns to the brio of the first film.
But Lara Jean and Peter have found their bliss together, so change is terrifying.
Much of the movie is whipped cream.
The trouble starts when Lara Jean doesnt get into Stanford University.
It was at this point that I began to yell at the screen.
I pleaded, Its got a pretty campus too!
But theres a sort of coercion in the screenplay all the same.
NYU is presented as a suitor, Lara Jean as someone who has fallen head over heels.
And in a romance, love must not be denied, right?
Dont think of college as an educational institution that charges money, they say.
Instead, think of school as a love-object.
Once that connection has been forged, only a monster, only aMontaguewould stand in your way.
Thats because it does actually matter who you turn into a romantic hero.Pleasedont do it to NYU.
