![]() It’s a romance that stands out for its immediacy, in that regard, and also suffers for it. ![]() And that’s the secret to the mysterious charms and flaws of The Sun is Also a Star, a movie that overwhelms us with its coincidences and turns of fate, announcing these gestures loudly and lovingly every step of the way, sometimes to egg on the shock and suspense of romantic possibility, other times to simply make us marvel at the beauty of it all. If it all sounds a little overbearing, well, it is. The lesson? Sometimes “late” is exactly where you’re meant to be. A metro worker pipes up over the PA to tell the frustrated passengers to relax-and then tells the train full of wary rush hour commuters a story about the day a loved one was meant to catch a train to get to work at the World Trade Center, but was made late by fate (or so the story goes). When the movie opens, Daniel and a friend are making their way into the city from Queens on a crowded subway train, and the train stalls. But his parents, who run a black haircare shop in Harlem, New York, want him to be a doctor for the sake of the family’s name. An overtly symbolic phrase if ever there were one.ĭaniel, one of the heroes of Ry Russo-Young’s love-drunk romantic comedy The Sun is Also a Star, wants to be a poet. ![]() On the morning of an important college interview, Daniel Bae ( Charles Melton), the son of Korean immigrants, writes a phrase in his notebook: Deus ex machina. ![]()
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