“To all the boys I’ve loved before”

Maria Eduarda
4 min readNov 22, 2022

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Why the movie “to all the boys I’ve loved before” it’s the best movie about teen love?

The movie follows the ups and downs of the life of Lara Jean Song, a girl of Korean descent who keeps her love letters in a hatbox given to her by her mother.

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Lara Jean writes to all her loves in letters, they so famous movies for a mate for Peter, a mate for Josh (her older sister’s ex-boyfriend), another Lucas (the gay boy at school), another boyfriend for her older sister Kenny’s old lady (a boy she traces in the movement), is specifically, for her house! But John Ambrose… reaches the boy, who is part of another school’s debate group.

So far, so good… or not, what she didn’t know is that kitty, Lara’s younger sister, sent all five of her love letters; so the chaos was done, however, Lara would only notice this on the following Monday at school, when Lara bumps into Peter, he explains to her that the letter she wrote was sent to him, she faints from nervousness, as soon as wakes up she sees Josh approaching with a letter in hand, on impulse, she kisses Peter to push Josh away.

In all this despair, Lara talks to Peter and he gives the option of a fake relationship, to leave his ex-girlfriend, who is even Lara’s ex-best friend; they then make a kind of contract to make this fake relationship work, without either of them losing out. In this way, months go by with school friends, family, and everyone believing that the two are really dating.

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Nothing less than expected, Gen (Peter’s ex-girlfriend and Lara’s ex-best friend) is really jealous of this relationship between the two, Peter realizes the conflict that is happening and finds himself lost in his own feelings, and Lara is just jealous too. In this whole mess of emotions, jealousy, and dating… a school ski trip appears, and there they face each other about their feelings, Lara and Peter start kissing alone in a hot tub; shortly after the trip is over, Gen confronts Lara Jean, she says that Peter spent the night in her room after they kissed, teasing Lara; she also shows Lara the rope that Peter gave her, which was Lara’s favorite.

And so Lara breaks up with Peter, Lara goes home to find her older sister has returned from college, Lara’s younger sister reveals that she was the one who sent the letters, and Lara is furious again. Everything seems worse when she sees that a video of her and Peter in the hot tub was posted on Instagram hinting that the two were in a sexual act! When the holidays are over, Lara finds out that everyone at school knows about the video, Peter insists on telling everyone that nothing happened between them; Lara confronts Gen about her posting the video, and then Gen assumes that she tried to sabotage their relationship.

Lara talks to her father about her relationships in her life, she comes to terms with Josh and they go back to being friends; she hesitates to go to Peter, despite having real feelings, however, her younger sister encourages her… Lara goes to Peter, and he declares himself to her and says he is in love, the two kiss, a kiss so full of affection and reconciliation; Everything is going great, but in the post-credits scenes John Ambrose, one of the five recipients of Lara Jean’s letters, arrives at her door with flowers in her hands.

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Well, after all this plot of the first movie, are you going to tell me that you didn’t feel like going to see the second movie? Well, yes, for the thousandth time! Anyway, now that you know about the first movie, we can agree that this is the best teen romance movie! In it, we can see the development of the main character's feelings, and even a “happy ending”… but will this be maintained in the second film?

Maybe you’re wondering now why you should watch a romance movie, I would answer my opinion “because it’s good”; however, I will give you a scientific answer.

Romance films, like comedy films, evoke a sense of well-being. As soon as you watch that movie full of love spread through the air, you are guaranteed a few hours of relief, this helps to deal with external “real life” problems. With such a demanding routine, a break from romantic stories can cause you to reflect. You can find more about this on the website:

https://www.medley.com.br/blog/saude-mental/qual-filme-devo-assistir

So now you even have a scientific reason to watch this romance movie and a popular opinion too (94% of google users liked this movie). Other reasons that you can use to watch the film are the representativeness that you can end up identifying during the film, and the culture addressed is important.

You’ve earned enough reasons, huh? I hope I convinced you to watch this amazing movie and proved that it is the best teen love movie.

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