It Ends With Us

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Of course! Here’s a polished and thoughtful version of your review, keeping your heartfelt message while enhancing the flow and clarity: --- Review of It Ends With Us It's unfortunate that the controversy surrounding the film has overshadowed its core message. As a 75-year-old woman who has witnessed far too many generations endure abuse "for the sake of the children," I found the movie’s ending to be both powerful and necessary. What many fail to realize is that staying in an abusive relationship teaches children to normalize that pain. It silently hands them a legacy of suffering, even when they swear they’ll never repeat it. Without proper counseling, therapy, and deep self-awareness, the cycle inevitably continues. This film beautifully illustrates that breaking the cycle takes courage, love, and a refusal to pass on generational wounds. That, to me, is its most magnificent triumph.

For all of the complexity of its behind the scenes drama, “It Ends With Us” is quite the simple, quietly executed story of florist Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) who remarks upon an intense relationship with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni), which is complicated by the reappearance in her life of her first love. Its soft, restrained approach appears to be contradictory to its themes of domestic violence and without any character investment or much conveyed character inner-conflict there is little to engage audiences in its outcomes.

I thought this movie was a waste of time and money. It was very flighty like it was made to be a romantic comedy and glossed over a lot of the trauma that made the book what it's so famous for. There was absolutely zero emotion from Blake Lively as Lily Bloom and because of this I couldn't connect with her character at all. I also felt that the element of what DV truly looks and feels like wasn't apparent in this film. There are plenty of films out there that do a way better job of depicting the trauma during and after DV and this film just failed miserably.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds ruined this movie. Good luck with the lawsuit 😉 #JusticeForBaldoni

I loved the movie. Don't listen to the naysayers, watch it for yourself. Beautifully done.

Just nothing redeeming about it. Primarily dialogue wise. Nothing caught and kept my attention. More like a “made for tv movie” for me. Honestly the only reason I watched it? The controversy around it.

This movie left me very conflicted. First of all, I did feel the acting was good; Lively, Baldoni, and Ferrer all giving really solid performances. Brandon Sklenar who is turning out to be a strong actor shows up, too, but it felt like the writers kind of decided he would be the just a point of this triangular relationship between these three main characters and just left his character in 2d mode…not filling him in enough to really get to know him. On one hand, I like that they chose to not overdramatize the subject matter and a curt telling of domestic abuse can heighten the jolting experience it is. But it was too bare; never really adding the necessary layers to make the audience invested in this story. Also, the wardrobe choices for Lively were odd at best. They didn’t create a persona as much as they simply distracted from the scene we were watching. In the end, it just felt empty and unsatisfying.

SPOILERS AHEAD Biggest advice for the book readers: Don't expect this to be like the book, because it misses a lot of points that the book even had or personalities from it. Between Allysa's personality being a little more high maintenance and preppy in the movie than modest and down to earth book version, to completely skipping over Lily and her mom's conversation about abuse. The flashback childhood version of them I felt was the most accurate from the writing, and the better acting. Not that Blake and Justin did a bad job at acting, and not taking account into the case that is currently going on, but I felt even Lily's personality changed between her book version and her movie version. The movie itself overall is not the worst, but for supposedly being a movie about DV, as well as "based off the book", it is not. They are to me, two different products that happen to have the same name. It ended up being a rom-com type of film, which is not the direction it should of gone for the heavy topic it surrounds. Kind of a slap in the face to DV victims to me. But that is my opinion.

Blakes portrayal and version just isn't up to the standards of what I'm positive Justin's actual film would've been up to, if not hijacked by Blake and Ryan. As she acted in her press junkets, the movie and Lily herself, played by Blake, came across as tone deaf and as an unrealistic depiction of abuse.