Which type of a person are you, a bae person or a bff person?
We have all been in that phase of our lives, our adolescent years, where we develop a crush over someone we probably shouldn’t have. This might be a school teacher, a friend’s parent, a good friend’s arch enemy, a relative or worse, someone from our best friend’s off-limits list. Because best friends are our forever, our flab “For Life and Beyond” but love, well love is blind, what can we do right?
A 2018 American romantic comedy film, The Kissing Booth is based on the novel of the same name by the author Beth Reekles. The film was released on Netflix on 11 May 2018, is directed by Vince Marcello and stars Molly Ringwald, Jacob Elordi, Joey King, and Joel Courtney in the lead roles.The storyline is pretty simple and straight. It is about two inseparable best friends Elle Evans and Lee Flynn played by Joey King and Joel Courtney, born to mothers who had been inseparable best friends for 20 long years. Elle and Lee had been best friends since the day they were born, spent all their days together and had a set of rules made up at the age of six which were never to be broken. But as they both reach high school, Elle finds herself developing a crush which she can’t get over from, on Lee’s older stupid hot brother, Noah Flynn. 
Noah Flynn, as played by Jacob Elordi, goes around by the reputation of a smoking hot short tempered football player, who is the fantasy of every girl in school and who thinks of Elle as his brother’s annoying little best friend. The situation gets much more twisted when Elle is forced to confront her secret crush at a kissing booth, and Noah Flynn reciprocates back. The relationship between the three gets intricate when Elle starts keeping her love life a secret and begins tip-toeing around Lee.
The movie displays a very cute bond between Elle and Lee, that is going to buy all your aww gestures all throughout the one hundred and ten minutes and also displays the crossroads of Love v/s Friendship. How would Lee react when he finds out about Elle dating his high-school legendary brother, who would Evans choose, what rules would she break and what secrets would she keep? Would she choose her childhood best friend and be heartbroken or choose the love she always wanted? Would she have the courage to tell Lee
“But being my best friend doesn’t give you the right to tell me who I can love.”
The movie is all about student uprisings, free love, booze and pop, and how the teenagers are going to do stuff that is stupid, weird, outlandish and sometimes wrong no matter how unhappy the adults are going to be. They are going to get involved in fights, going to get curious about sexuality, going to mess up some decisions trying to stumble upon crushes and love, and sometimes are gonna get their heart broken in the process, describing quite accurately the highs of adolescence as well as the lows.
With an average dialogue and line delivery, and a cliched plot, which seems dragged on for a bit too long at some points with a fairytale touch, this film would appeal only to a selective audience. But if you like high school dramas with a bit of comedy and romance then you are going to devour it up completely. The movie will drift you back to your high school memory lane, back to your high school crush; maybe it’s a good memory, maybe it’s bad, maybe it would spring up a smile on your face and a twinkle in your eyes, or maybe it would flash a few tears, and maybe this is worth watching for that school time crush, to whom a piece of your heart would always belong to.