Quentin is taken out of his comfort zone, and a spark of life is lit in him. One night Margo climbs into his bedroom window and the pair seek revenge on Margo's cheating boyfriend, and friends that were complicit. Quentin is a hard working conscientious student, he's grown up opposite the enigmatic and charismatic Margo, and discovers he's in love with her, despite them drifting apart. This is fine but it could have been much better. It could have tightened the middle and added more to the road trip when the group is together. As a movie, it needs more adventures and more cinematic excitement. They are more and less regular teens which has its appeal. The three guys are nice but lacks great charisma. Everything is fair but nothing is outstanding. I also like a good road trip and this one has its moments, too. Then there is the mystery which is less compelling because I'm mostly waiting for the inevitable road trip. I like those one-night adventures in movies. The movie starts with her taking our lead on a nice adventure. Cara Delevingne shows competent acting and a good intriguing presence which is necessary for the role. Quentin, Ben, Radar, Radar's girlfriend Angela, and Margo's friend Lacey go on a road trip. She's gone the next day but she has left clues for Quentin to find her paper town. She pulls him into a night of revenge against her cheating boyfriend and her backstabbing friends. Now suddenly, she climbs into his window. They found a dead body but he refused to follow her adventures and they drifted apart. They were friends when she first arrived. Margo has been living across the street for 11 years. He's a band geek with his best friends Ben and Radar. Though humorous, the presence of black Santas in Paper Towns actually represents a really important alternate narrative to the porcelain-skinned, rosy-cheeked Santa Claus of the popular imagination.Quentin Jacobsen is an Orlando high school senior with a small comfort zone. There's definitely still room for future collections to make a mark in the black Santa collection, and I'm looking forward to its (almost certain) future in the Guinness Book. He can still occasionally be seen around Christmas in Amsterdam, to the discomfiture of many tourists. But his companion Zwarte Piet has become the subject of much controversy more recently, as he's usually (quite offensively) portrayed by an actor in black face, wearing red lipstick and a wig. The Dutch Sinterklaas is accompanied by somewhere between six and eight black men (seven?). Still unclear what the criteria were for "elf." Just for some additional context: As the story "Six to Eight Black Men," from David Sedaris's collection Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, humorously outlines, other nations (here, the Netherlands) already have alternate Christmas narratives to our own. The Guinness Book already has a record for the largest single gathering of Santa's Elves (1,762). Santa Claus would be nothing without his trusty helpers. The film's production team assembled a massive array of black Santas for the set, from figurines to tapestries to cards and prints. What could be an innocuous collection actually, for many, has serious political and social undertones. Radar's family's love of black Santas, Green explains, are a (really important!) way to re-envision our stories and traditions. Paper Towns is all about reimagining our preconceptions of the world, he continued, whether its fictional locations, mythologized young women, or even Santa Claus. In response to the inevitable curiosity about why he chose black Santas as Radar's family's particular quirk, author John Green recalled an old girlfriend whose parents had a huge collection of Santa Clauses themselves. Regardless, their hobby is certainly one of the world's most interesting, and it has a good backstory. Does this mean Radar's parents really do have the largest collection? There are a few related records, however, as well as some unofficial title-holders (including the Paper Towns movie set, which is probably a strong contender for the largest collection). Although the idea has gained a lot of following as an alternate narrative to the dominant (very white) story of Saint Nick, the Guinness Book (arbiter of all things strange and excessive) hasn't adopted black Santas quite yet. But who really has the largest black Santa Claus collection? It turns out there's no official world record for "Largest Black Santa Collection," strangely enough. "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS," he exclaims. In Paper Towns, Q's best friend Radar tries - and fails - to hide his parents' enormous collection of black Santa Claus memorabilia.
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