Chemical Hearts and the Chemical Reaction of Teenage Love
The moral case for recognizing how teenagers react to falling in love.
People react to each other in all kinds of ways.
It all largely depends on who is reacting to who and how they are affected by the other person. Very much like the way chemicals come into contact with each other and cause something to happen. These tend to be really explosive or really calm depending on the chemical. Maybe one of the biggest ways a reaction happens is when two people fall in love. The chemicals in your body go crazy to make you feel happy and want to get as much of that reaction as you can possibly get. Almost like you're on some kind of drug and on some kind of high. The problem is when you lose this reaction or if you're away from these feelings for so long, you're not really sure what to do.
Where this happens on overdrive is when you're a teenager. Being a teenager means the chemicals in your body are already going through all sorts of changes. It makes people do weird things that adults don't necessarily understand despite the fact that at one point in their lives, they went through it themselves. Then you add in the way you react to another person's chemicals once they get close to you, and there's no telling what you might do. Losing this feeling when your body is going crazy means everything gets so much worse. Even just a break up can be bad yet if the person who you react to dies, it's not exactly clear how to make your chemicals go back to normal.
Naturally because death is a kind of chemical reaction in and of itself. The problem is that it's more permanent and harder to get rid of than just the ordinary love. You believed that you were always going to have this person in your life so they can make you feel these reactions. Now they're gone and you want it back... yet it will never happen again. Over time, you will have reactions to other people as well and feel these feelings as well. However, this chemical reaction will be much different than the one you had before. Which makes figuring out the way to feel and how to move forward so confusing. Yet there isn't really anything you can do to stop it.
Chemical Hearts is fundamentally about the way you react to love as a teenager. Henry Page, as played fantastically by Austin Abrams, is a teenager in love. He meets Grace Town, as played brilliantly by Lili Reinhart, and can't help but react to her. She makes him feel such intense feelings for her. The problem is that Grace is trying to deal with the loss of someone she used to love. He died and she's still not over it. Despite this, she does start to really feel something for Henry. It's a different feeling than what she already felt with her lost love. Something she's not really sure how to react to in this new scenario.
It's a beautiful thing to watch and you should explore the chemical reaction of love by checking out Chemical Hearts as soon as you can.
You can watch Chemical Hearts on Amazon.
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