5626 IT ENDS WITH US! Freedomain Movie Review

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Stefan Molyneux

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I analyze the film "It Ends With Us," featuring Blake Lively, examining its exploration of the cycle of abuse. Despite strong performances and writing, I critique the film's lack of psychological depth. The narrative, centered on Lily's tumultuous love life with Ryle and Atlas, raises questions about her growth and the portrayal of flawed masculinity. I highlight the film's failure to explore women's complexities and its reliance on victimization tropes. However, I acknowledge a powerful moment of reflection by Lily, urging viewers to approach the film with critical awareness of its themes on love and pain. I invite listeners to share their thoughts on the film's portrayal.

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0:00.0	Alrighty, hey.
0:03.1	Everybody, Stephen Mollie from Freedom, I hope you're doing well.
0:05.9	So, yes, yes, I took the bullet.
0:09.1	Maybe you can, maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't.
0:11.6	I'd recommend it as a whole, but I went to go and see the movie
0:16.0	It ends with us with Blake Lively and a guy who basically is Sicilian Harry Connick Jr.
0:21.6	With great abs and a steady though rather broken hand.
0:26.0	And it is the story of breaking the cycle of abuse something I'm very interested in so I went
0:30.6	to the movie, fingers crossed, hoping and the best, acting is good, writing is pretty good,
0:36.6	absolutely unbelievable scenarios, and to me it has about the same depth of psychology as a single coat of paint on a soap water bubble.
0:47.8	So what is the story as a whole?
0:50.2	So there's this woman, see, oh gosh, I mean you've seen better naming conventions in Italian soap operas.
1:01.2	So the woman, she's in her late 30s and she wants to open a flower shop.
1:07.2	She wants to be open a florists and her name is Lily Bloom, Rose or something like it's flower stuff, right? And then you've got a guy who gets
1:16.5	a very excited, very sort of juiced up, he really riles her up, and his name is Ryle. See, because he rises up. And then there's another guy, her first
1:26.0	love the guy she lost her virginity too and he carries the weight of the world on his
1:31.5	shoulders and he's kind of bowed down and all of that and his name is Atlas
1:36.8	Because you can read him like a map you get all of this right so the movie starts with
1:48.1	Lily The movie starts with Lily, the main character, Lake Lively character. Her father's dead, he was the mayor, and she's got to say five nice things about him at the funeral, but she doesn't.
1:56.2	And of course it's because he was an abusive, violent guy who beat up her mother.
2:00.0	Never touched her apparently, beat up her mother.
2:01.6	I think maybe sexually assaulted
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