Watching: It Ends with Us

As I look around the warm, giggly cinema I notice many young and old women (and maybe one man who was forced to come) all there waiting for a story to unfold – a story about love, replacement, and cruelty.

Staring at the blank screen, the lights start to dim, as voices start to become faint and slow. It Ends with Us starts with a sad short clip; it wasn’t what the audience were expecting. It shows Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) visiting her hometown, all for her father’s funeral. Lily walks slowly up the lonely podium before many people that seem to train their beady eyes on her. She says she will list her five favourite things about her father, though instead of tearing up and listing things, she stands there quietly. Not because she was nervous, but because she had nothing nice to say about her father. The start of the film describes Lily’s trauma in such a little way that we as the audience can only picture a blip of her past life.

As the rest of the film starts to unfold, with Lily then moving to Boston to start her own business and becoming a unique florist, things then turn when she meets a very handsome neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Justin Baldoni), but when getting deep into the relationship Lily encounters another side of Ryle that was very similar to her father. Then the plot twists when Lily’s first love Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar) becomes involved unexpectedly in Lily’s life. Go make up your own mind about It Ends with Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel.

Klaudia M, Year 10