If You Knew Netflix
Online Premieres: Review Of "If You Knew", By Alice Wu (Netflix)
A shy young high school girl helps a friend write a love letter to a person they both desire.
“If you knew” (“The Half of It” in its original language and “Conquista a medias” in Spain) is a Netflix drama, written and directed by Alice.
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“If you knew” (“The Half of It” in its original language and “Conquista a medias” in Spain) is a Netflix drama, written and directed by Alice.
The importance of representation
I say "it would seem" because Wu manages to escape from what is expected on several sides. To such an extent that he not only charges for doing the homework of many of his classmates, but one of his teachers knows it and even thanks him for avoiding having to read what the others write. And he wants Ellie to write Aster love letters and pass them off as hers.
Ellie doesn’t want to know anything but ends up reluctantly accepting because her family needs the money. Something that starts to grow when the cards start circulating. But, of course, Aster believes that the writer is Paul and that’s where the typical entanglements begin because the boy, in person, has nothing to do with the "Paul" writer.
And there is no way to hide the enormous intellectual difference between the two. This is where a second interesting element appears that, when the film can fall into certain faciles of indie comedy, cool and intelligent boys versus simple and dumb boys, comedy situations that are excessively forced to uphold the rules of the genre, rescues it from that area. And in that way it is allowed, and enables the viewer, to do the same. The other "flashy" side of the series seems to me less transgressive than what is sold.
And that naturalness with which Wu inserts that "transgression" improves the film. But it is not a major problem since the central part of the film runs, fundamentally, on the other side.