I mean, I guess it’s Christmas and it’s snowing, but moving from fighting to the confessing of love on rooftops does feel a bit much. What didn’t work for me as much is the quickness of the resolution of certain conflicts. And even characters like Joan Cusack’s tinfoil lady, who is weird and kooky and not someone we get a whole lot of insight to – there is an innate understanding of her role in the movie. This deft handling of young adult struggles and challenges is the aspect of Let It Snow that I connected with the most.Įven minor characters have proper motivations, like Keon (Jacob Batalon), who wants to throw a kick-ass party because he wants to show off his credibility as a DJ, and the party doesn’t feel R-rated or scandalous, with young people getting wasted or sexing about. These aren’t the young adults of Riverdale or Gossip Girl, they actually feel like young people I would find in the real world, with legitimate young people problems, like balancing commitment between self and family, coming to terms with one’s sexuality, handling the leap from friendship to romance etc. It helps that the young actors who play these characters emote decently, not to mention they come across as authentic and real. Stuart and Julie take up the bulk of the film, and theirs is actually the story I enjoyed the most. It also makes it easier to overlook the weaker stories, since the stronger more compelling characters are naturally given more narrative space. I like the overlapping narratives, especially since the film medium allows for such exploration.
In the book, the stories are separate and distinct from each other, but in the movie, all the stories overlap, so we start with Tobin (Mitchell Hope) and Angie’s (Kiernan Shipka) story, then we jump to Stuart (Shameik Moore) and Julie’s (Isabela Merced) meeting on the train, and so on. Some of the narratives have been modified, mainly to remove the cheating element that was a bigger part in some of the stories, and of course social media has more of a presence here – it is 2019, after all. Don’t expect a faithful adaptation of the collection though. The premise of the collection is a simple one: 1 location, 3 stories, and lots of snow.
Let It Snow is an adaptation of a 2008 collection of novella-like stories, with contributions from John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myrackle.
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