The Fundamentals of Caring

Last night I was just flicking through Netflix, trying to figure out what I wanted to watch, when I stumbled upon the Netflix original film ‘The Fundamentals of Caring’. I don’t know what drew me to the film, but I just thought that I’d give it a go. The film has a fairly small cast, including Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts and Selena Gomez, and although I wouldn’t have thought that these three would work well together, I was wrong, because they really do

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The film follows the story of Trevor, a disabled teen who moved from England to the US, and now rarely sees beyond the same four walls, and Ben, a writer who became Trevor’s caregiver after suffering a personal tragedy. I’m not going to summarise everything that happens in the film, because really I’m never going to do it justice. It’s the kind of film that, once it’s over, you just want to rewind and watch all over again. I can’t really explain what it is that I loved about the film, but I think I loved the fact that it was very real and raw, it didn’t romanticise disability, nor was it a soppy rom-com with no real meaning, it was a film about friendship and overcoming everything that life throws at you. The last couple of minutes of the film saw me crying, and then suddenly laughing, and that very much describes the tone of the film. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll want to watch it all over again. So go, grab a cup of tea, light a candle, snuggle up, and press play. You won’t regret it.