The highly awaited film “It Ends With Us” was officially released in August. After lots of years since the release of the novel “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover, the release of this movie was then inspired. The readers of this novel by one of New York’s best-selling authors waited 7 years for this amazing film to drop.
I reviewed this film because it was very emotional and a life-learning lesson.
The life-learning lesson is that love is not always easy and requires respect, sacrifice, and understanding. In this film, Lily Bloom, who is the main character, experienced a lot of trauma from her mom getting abused physically and mentally. At a young age, she met someone who was very special to her but her dad prevented her from being happy with the person she loved.
Fast-forward a couple of years. She was feeling down and decided to go to a sweet rooftop, where she met Ryle Kincaid. They started to get to know each other.
As time passed, Lily Bloom decided to rent a place which she then turned into a flower shop. During this process a woman walked in asking what this place would soon become, Lily answered her question saying it was going to be a flower shop, Allysa then said she hated flowers because they didn’t last forever, it was only a short period of time. Lily then asked if Allysa wanted to help bring the place back to life, Allysa was more than happy to help. One day Allysa’s husband and brother decided to help out, when they were walking in, she realized that Allysa’s brother was the man she met on the rooftop.
After that night, Ryle and Lily had started having a special connection. Many exciting and romantic dates, meaningful conversations, endless nights together made them closer together. When they got more serious, Lily’s mother was coming into town to see Lily Bloom now that they were miles away from each other. Ryle then asked Lily if he could come along to dinner so he could meet her mother, at dinner she then saw that one boy she loved when she was 15 years old. Turns out they had never spoken to each other again since the night of the incident where her dad beat him due to him finding them together in her room without him knowing of him.
When seeing Atlas, her trauma and all the memories flooded back to her. As time passed she then started experiencing abuse from Ryle, once Atlas found out he was super angry at the fact that after everything she would allow herself to get abused. It took Lily a lot of time and courage to leave Ryle. She then finds out that she’s pregnant with his child but that didn’t make her want to go back. Atlas was letting her stay at his place and did nothing but comfort and support her through this.
It was then time to go tell her best friend Allysa who was also Ryle’s sister, she was very sad at the fact that her brother had hurt her best friend but was fully sure that she didn’t want Lily to go back and supported her with her decision on keeping the baby.
Ryle then found out that he had a baby coming, he begged Lily to come back so that the baby can grow up with both her parents being there but Lily insisted. Lily allowed Ryle to be there when she gave birth to her daughter Emerson, named after Ryle and Allysa’s brother that passed away when they were kids. Ryle was holding Emerson, Lily started questioning Ryle, imagine what you would say to your daughter if she told you the person she loved hit her. Lily made Ryle understand her point of view.
Later she said “it ends with us” meaning her and her daughter, she hopes that her daughter never goes through what her and her grandmother went through.
Years pass and it’s just her and her daughter, Lily then takes Emerson to meet her grandfather who had passed, while this was happening Lily then asked her mom why she stayed even after everything he put her through. Her mom said that it was because she loved him, which is an understanding reason but I personally don’t think putting up with that is worth all the hurtfulness and fear it comes with.