Paper Towns Movie Analysis

“Margo loved mysteries so much she became one,” is one of the beginning lines in the movie Paper Towns. It is also one of the most quoted ones. This may be because people think of it as deep or maybe romantic. The movie Paper Towns is anything but romantic. It portrays a love between a boy and the idea of a girl, not between a boy and an actual girl.
Paper Towns is a movie that came out in 2015 based on the 2008 novel Paper Towns by John Green. The movie is about how the main character, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen, goes on multiple adventures to help and find the girl he is in love with, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Throughout the movie, Quentin talks about things he and Margo did as kids. He describes how close they were then, and how in love he is with her now. He speaks of her and how she must be with her …show more content…
“You didn’t come here to make sure I was okay. You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo..” Margo says to Quentin. “You’re not even pissed at me, Q! You’re pissed at this idea of me you keep inside your brain from when you were little!” Margo yells at him (Schreier, Paper Towns). Quentin does not deny this. Margo continues to explain how Quentin was not actually in love with her, and how he only wanted to play hero. Quentin slowly begins to realize she is right. At the end of the movie, Quentin is shown in the car. He explains how he was in love with the idea of Margo, not the actual girl. He realizes that he had no right to do the things he did. The portrayal of love in the movie Paper Towns is not a good one. This is because it was not meant to be. Paper Towns was meant to show how dangerous being in love with an idealized person is, for both you and them. Paper Towns portrayed a love that was not real, and that was the intention all along. It portrayed love between a boy and the idea of a girl, not between a boy and an actual