This is Dylan (Charlie Plummer, All the Money in the World), who gives her something new to smile about during this bizarre time. Langford plays Mara a little more extravert than her Leah in Love, Simon, and with a wider range of reactions to her crises but just as open-minded, as evidenced in the way she accepts cheeky come-ons and then dates from a slightly geeky guy she’d barely acknowledged before. It is essentially her (granted, unusual) story, with this curse/virus/phenomenon triggering both existential angst and a new relationship. Spontaneous is told from the point of view of Mara (Katherine Langford), who is daydreaming in class when a girl at a neighboring desk explodes. I’ve got no problem with the cast or the characters, so let’s start with those. The film is fun, glossy, deliberately edgy, and woven through with plenty of equally deliberate message. The teenagers are fairly easy to like too, not perfect or uber-cool, but flawed and slightly quirky (though not so quirky as to be Juno-pretentious). Really! And that is about all I need to say to give you the plot. The nutshell premise of Spontaneous is easy to like: a story about a group of teenagers who are losing friends due to them blowing up, combined with a high-school love story.
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