What "The Sun Is Also A Star" Movie Adaptation Lacked

I went with a friend to watch the movie adaptation of the YA novel "The Sun Is Also Is Also A Star" read the novel a year before the film was released. The film started Yara Shahidi, and Charles Melton as the two leads: Daniel And Natasha, and in my opinion the two were excellent and delivered faultlessly. What I'm going to be talking about in this article isn't the casting or the performance but a change in the story itself. It may seem insignificant but guaranteed if you read the book before watching the film, you'll understand that point I'm trying to make. The change is that of Irene, Irene is a security guard at the immigration office that Natasha visits at the beginning of the story, Irene has been having suicidal thoughts for some time and is planning to kill herself that very day, but towards the end of the novel Natasha leaves Irene a thank you message which ends up saving Irene's life. The film also changed the timeline of the ending, in the book the story moves forward ten years into the future instead of just five. At the final pages of the book, we find Irene again as a flight attendant, and she coincidentally finds Natasha in one of the flights and thanks Natasha for her thank you message which ended up giving her the hope she needed to carry on living. As for the love story, which is the main plot of both the book and movie, we find that Daniel is also on the same plane which starts their love cycle all over again, but ending the novel with Natasha simply calling out" Daniel". Personally, the reason I wish they would have kept the Irene storyline in the film was because of the significance it had in the story as a whole. And for one, it would satisfy the beliefs of the two main characters, Daniel believes in destiny and fate, and Natasha believes that every choice we make matters, for every decision there would be consequences. And the Irene plot line falls perfectly into that, and proves that it was her destiny to live and to meet Natasha that day so that she would be one of the reasons for her to keep on living. It also proves that every choice we make, no matter how small can change our own life, or maybe somebody else's, and that is a very strong message to send. And I believe that it was the premises of the book, that sure maybe there is something called fate or destiny but something is certain, and that is the consequences of the choices we make, and how doing something nice that may seem insignificant to you, could change someone else's life, maybe even save it… Overall the movie was did a good job of bringing the world of "The Sun Is Also A Star" into life, but what it lacked was the deeper message that the book had, which made the book so much more than just a love story.