This film posits that happiness stems from heath, romantic love, and freedom, three things that people with SCID will never have. Instead of truly showing the effects and issues with SCID, this film blatantly twists the truth. Gus is a character with issues, and those issues lend to succumbing and dying of cancer. While Stars is also a story about being young and sick, and living life to the fullest, it's also honest. Comparing again to The Fault in Our Stars, I can say this was not as interesting or candid. Putting aside my general disgust (which is overwhelming) it's just not a good story. Using SCID for the purpose of melodrama is not only insensitive, but dangerous. In the US every year, between 40-100 babies are diagnosed with SCID, which means that though this is a rare disorder, there are people out there living with it the best way they can, and they may not have the fancy equipment that our protagonist does. (This exact attitude made me throw my copy of Me Before You across the room). I feel that books like this promote the idea that people with unique medical issues don't enjoy life as much, and their only option is either death or a flirtation with death. I strongly feel that this may fall into the latter. Some of these properties have been respectful of real diseases and disorders, but a lot have not been.
It's spawned similar books, films, and television shows, and there's generally an element of romance attached. Sick-lit has become a formidable genre of YA ever since the blockbuster success of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars.
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