After

The film "After" begins with a story about how certain moments of life define a person, and from that moment the cliches do not stop. If there is any defining moment in Tessa Young's life, it's either a meeting, or irritation, or falling in love, or a broken heart, or a reunion with Hardin Scott. She is a naive, inexperienced girl from the suburbs. He is a guy with the image of a "bad guy" who is really just a vulnerable soft-hearted person hiding under his statements that love does not exist, periodic outbursts of violence and a body covered with, let's say, eclectic tattoos. There's a row of what looks like guinea pigs wearing sunglasses on his forearm. Yes, the romance between these two characters is such that it is very easy to get distracted by a tattoo. The film is based on the first book in a series of novels by Anna Todd, which perhaps explains why there is nothing here that could change life, as the opening voiceover promises. As in the recently popular series of similar film adaptations, here is not so much a separate story, as three main events, culminating in the final promise that future parts will provide us with something more.