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The End of the F***ing World is a story told by two outsiders, both stuck in a square town, both without friends: Alyssa and James, both 17.

After his mother killed herself in front of him when he was six, James, as he says, has stopped feeling anything. That is why he intends to murder someone to find out if he is able to have any feelings at all. When Alyssa crosses his path, he chooses her to be his victim.

Alyssa has (apparently) become unimportant in her parent´s life, since her father left and her mother remarried and got two children to live an easy suburban life.

Alyssa and James decide to leave and set out for a road trip through Britain, while they have to face engine issues and psychopaths as much as the police at some point.

The second season can hardly be retold without spoilering you, which is why I´ll leave it up to you to read the whole plot elsewhere.

The series is awesome, the two main characters are just humane: broken- each one in his own way-, angry but also sad and with each episode more and more lovable.

They are tough, not typical and all in all two against the rest of the world.

The series has a beautiful cinematography, great shots and an awesome soundtrack.

The End of the F***ing World is a story of a kind of friendship we all wish us sometimes and still with incidents none of us wants to experience.

Sometimes, we all just need an overview: "Sometimes everything is suddenly really simple, you step out and you see where you are really clearly. You see yourself, and you- decide to run away to "understand what people mean to each other."

"Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", better known as "Cinema Paradiso", is a homage to the medium film and the cinema itself.

Taking place in a small italian village during the 1950s- reminding you of the scenery of the sicilian village in "The Godfather Part 2" -, cinema is the (only) attraction and escape of daily life.

For Toto, a smart and cheeky little boy, it is a fascination.

Soon, he becomes friends with projectionist Alfredo, learns from him and saves his life during a fire.

While Toto grows up, he finds a girlfriend, Elena, but loses her because of her family´s move to a different town and also because her father always prohibited the relationship between them- that seems to be reason enough for the audience, that they never see each other again until the day grown-up Toto visits his hometown 30 years later.

During his visit, he meets Elena again and she tells him that Toto´s friend Alfredo was the one who prevented their relationship: Elena had intended to say Toto Goodbye before her family´s move, but had only met Alfredo and asked him to tell Toto she had been there.

Alfredo, however, never told Toto about that visit, so he would leave his hometown to become a famous movie director and wouldn´t have any reason to come back.

The intention behind that story is clear, director Giuseppe Tornatore wanted another explanation why Toto and Elena never saw each other again, but it is unnecessary- Elena´s father and their move seems to be reason enough for their separation, as said.

Through Elena´s story, good Alfredo suddenly becomes a cold man who destroys the relationship of a young couple.

That is wrong and leaves you a little puzzled.

It would have been much better if Toto and Elena had never met again, neither during his visit, and Toto would have only watched his old film of Elena instead, to show the audience that he still misses her.

Although the ending is weak, the movie all in all is good entertainment and has beautiful scenes and a great storyline.

Every lover of cinema should know "Cinema Paradiso".