“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
It ends where it usually begins, that’s how this book by Colleen Hoover has taught us. It taught us how to not tolerate things that aren’t right and it also taught us how to never settle for less especially when you know that you have felt the the top tier standards before. This year, Sony Pictures has actually made our dreams to have the It Ends With Us book come to life.
For those who haven’t read it yet, I will give you some summary. This is the story about a lady named Lily Bloom who was living in a household where she was taught that tolerating your husband’s bad behavior is normal, and when she grows up, she decides to change her life by changing that pattern. In this story, she will discover that she is still in love with an ex she really learned how to love from scratch with nature making them closer together, but at this point, Lily in is a relationship, but the question is, is she happy enough to stay? or is she broken enough to walk away and open the door again to that old love of hers in case it crosses her path for another time.
The movie starts in the part where Lily Bloom played by Blake Lively, meets Rile Kincaid played by Justin Baldoni and well, they fell in love like thunder and storm. All the sweet honeymoon part where relationships usually starts, they all have it. But like any relationship, the whole things does have a red flag and that’s what Lily discovers day by day, reminding her of her parents’ relationship which is really on point with the book. And there comes the flashback about Atlas Corrigan, Lily’s homeless ex boyfriend played Brandon Sklenar, which reminds her that there’s a guy in the past who she loved very much.
The Verdict
I like it. Okay, I said it. I liked it because there’s no way I’m gonna imagine the booking otherwise. I feel like the character Lily Bloom just fits Blake perfectly, especially the young Blake, like did is she Blake’s real sister? Coz she could be her sister in real life. The whole portraying of how honeymoon stage is was actually on point and I cannot even lie, at that point, when you fall in love with a man, it will be hard to distinguished which is red and which is green.
The changes in the books are minor, especially the age they are trying to portray, it says that in movie, they are portraying as 30 and 40 but in the books they’re a lot younger than that. So, technically, the timeline is kind of awkward especially if you read the book.
The main thing I loved about the book though which they didn’t show is Atlas’ restaurant. It was his dream to have one, and he said that he will call it Better in Boston. But in the movie, the restaurant is called Root, which they actually connected with that oak tree and its roots because of its meaning. So as a reader, that was the main point of the book, like Atlas never really moved on, it was always Better in Boston.
What I really didn’t follow is that there are a lot of loopholes and yes, they actually focused on the relationship between Rile and Lily, rather than Atlas and hers, I was looking forward to that mainstream thing where when they saw each other, it should ‘ve flashed everything back. And it focused more in Lily than both of them, making me believe that it is too impossible to take the second book to come around. I always hear it when Atlas say “They said it’s better in Boston except the girls, coz you’re here.”, Well, Lily said that too during their reunion scene.
All in all, I’m gonna give this a whopping 68% wonderroanne rating, just because I liked how they made the characters feel alive for readers.
Wonder Roanne 