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Some movies are the epitome of our everyday reality. They bring out those things that seem to be hidden in the dark. It takes a skilled wordsmith to write down stories like this in such a way that your imagination while reading seems like a memory, and it takes an even talented movie director to bring this to life. That was the challenge Colleen Hoover’s novel “It Ends With Us” would face
The book has won the hearts of readers with its exceptional portrayal of love, loss and spirit. For those of us who love to see our imaginations being enacted, the Justin Baldoni starring-adaptation was a dream being brought to life.
This is a romantic movie but one with a core lesson centered around its main characters; Blake Lively (Lily Bloom), Justin Baldoni (Ryle Kincaid), Brandon Sklenar (Atlas Corrigan).
It Ends With Us story of a young woman named Lily, who comes a dysfunctional and abusive household where her father routinely beat her mother. Over time, the mother’s story would be repeated when Lily met and began a relationship the handsome neurosurgeon Ryle.
Lily’s love for flowers since her teenage years led her to opening a small flower shop, where she worked with Ryle’s sister who eventually became her best friend and sister-in-law.
A turn of events gradually let Lilly to drift away into her past life where she had met Atlas Corrigan who was her first love. She had helped him when she saw him sneak into an abandoned home after school. There’s a good reason “first love never dies” has been the main takeaway for this story.
As much as some of us would love to watch the movie, I would recommend reading the book first. The book is more detailed and takes you deep into that land of imagination so much that you begin to feel every emotion as if it were real. Even though the movie brings the book to life, it does not hold a candel to the originality and artistry found within the pages of the book.
Jessie Ngowoh, Reporter