Boy Proof
Boy Proof
Cecil Castellucci
John Green
Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl. - John Green
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Boy Proof

Boy Proof

Cecil Castellucci
By
Cecil Castellucci
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In the heart of Los Angeles, where the silver screen reigns supreme and the extraordinary seems almost ordinary, Victoria Jurgen, self-dubbed Egg, navigates the hallways of her high school with a detachment that's as deliberate as it is defensive. Inspired by the indomitable heroine of "Terminal Earth," Egg dons a stark white ensemble, sports a bald head, and tints her eyebrows to match, crafting an armor from her obsessions with science fiction and fantasy. Her life is a carefully curated collection of activities that bolster her identity as an untouchable, intellectual fortress: photographing for the school paper, leading the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club, and apprenticing under the wing of her father, a revered special effects makeup artist. In Egg's meticulously arranged world, there's no room for the unpredictability of relationships or the messiness of human connections. However, the arrival of Max, a quick-witted and artistically gifted new student, begins to crack the veneer of Egg's carefully constructed persona. Max, with his genuine interest in Egg's passions and his disarming understanding of who she is beneath her sci-fi shell, poses a challenge to Egg's self-imposed isolation. As Egg's interactions with Max grow, she is forced to confront the fears that have led her to adopt her "boy proof" facade and question whether she's been protecting herself from the world or imprisoning herself from it. Through a journey of self-discovery, vulnerability, and possible heartbreak, "Boy Proof" explores what happens when the worlds we build to safeguard our hearts become the very things that keep us from truly living.

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Released
2005
17 Feb
Length
208
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Haunting and beautiful story of this outcast girl. - John Green
Silent is the ruined land.Man is brutaland the rain does not wash awaythe painor rid the distant memory.It makes it glisten.
— Cecil Castellucci, Boy Proof

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