There's been an interesting shift in teen and young adult romance films and rom-coms recently. For a while, these movies have been obsessed with unrequited love and often correlate young love with death in a frankly bizarre way; The Fault in Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Midnight Sun, Five Feet Apart, Everything Everything, The Notebook, The Last Song, and A Walk to Remember is just a cursory glance at these terminal romance flicks. There's something subtly nefarious about these movies, with Justine Smith astutely commenting for The National Post:

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