Netflix's newest coming-of-age love story is about family, friendship and 'finding your own unique voice.' TheHalfofIt
tells the story of Ellie Chu , a shy, straight-A, friendless Chinese-American high school senior who makes extra cash by writing papers for her fellow classmates in the backwoods of the sleepy Washington town of Squahamish. When she reluctantly agrees to help football jock Paul Munsky write love letters for his crush, school beauty Aster Flores , the girl Ellie secretly crushes on, the unlikely trio embark on an unconventional triangle.
As the cast tells it, the characters' messy triangle is very reminiscent to real-life experiences, where falling in love means stumbles along the way. While Ellie and Aster's love story receives notice, Lemire zeroed in on Ellie and Paul's unexpected friendship as a worthy love story all their own. "We've got comparisons to a lot of different films already and I think it is this thing of looking at the individuality of the characters," he says."Everybody's human. Our stories are universal in so many different ways but diving into the intricacies of the lives that these characters are portraying, even though there might be comparisons. I think that we should rejoice in the similarities.
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