It Ends With Us Premiere

[zodgory]

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The cast of It Ends With Us (as well as Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman), adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, attended the premiere of their film in NYC.

Comments

[arilicious]

spoilers alert, TW: dv, sa

[Spoiler (click to open)]The main character (whose name is LILLY BLOOM and runs a FLOWER SHOP! yes i'm dead serious), falls in love and marries a toxic, abusive guy who basically stalks her but she falls for him because he's sooooo hot and rich and perfect. Then he hits her multiple times but she blames herself every time. Then he rapes her. She finds out she's pregnant (not from the rape, but from another time), she keeps the baby (doesn't even mention abortion as an option, she's just "whoop, I'm having a baby!"), her water breaks, she gives birth in like 10 minutes (again, I WISH I was kidding), asks him for a divorce immediately after the birth (and she says throughout her pregnancy "I'm not gonna decide what I'll do with him until after the baby's born!" because apparently pregnant women can't make decisions), names the baby after his dead brother (Emerson, ugh), gives the baby his last name and allows him to co-parent and have unsupervised visits because "well just because he hit me doesn't mean he'll hurt our baby!"

oh, and she also has these diary entries addressed to Ellen Degeneres as a teen lol.

[cityofships]

...and here I am scrapping every novel idea I have because I think they're all shit. This bitch is making bank and all I need is the audacity to do the same apparently.

[familiardevil]

The novel is poorly written and overall shitty, and Hoover's takes on DV are generally not good. As a long-time domestic violence advocate, I am hoping this will be a bit of an entryway for folks to see how abusive relationships can develop and why folks struggle to leave them. I don't love the abuser's lowkey redemption arc and her allowing him to stay in the baby's life, but I do think they do an interesting job of demonstrating how his own trauma interacts with his desire to exert power and control over her.

I think Blake in this role might allow folks to sympathize with a figure a lot of people have very little sympathy for or generally don't even care about, which is people experiencing IPV. I think that could be nice.

The rest...abortion sign language.gif

[familiardevil]

to be clear I think Hoover does an overall shit job at portraying IPV AND I also think most people don't understand/care to understand the dynamics of IPV and if this movie can allow people to feel more sympathic/supportive towards folks who experience IPV then that might be good

there is very little nuance in this novel but a lot of people don't give a shit about nuance, especially when it relates to IPV

[arilicious]

Her books are pro-life propaganda, the only other one I read is Verity, it’s equally horrible.

[familiardevil]

Verity is out of control, I actually found it incredibly funny but I think she wrote that dead-ass and that's wild

She seems like a weirdo POS