E5: Two Cycle Breakers talk about "It Ends with Us"

This is a Bonus casual episode where I talk to Diana Lee Guzman about watching the "It Ends with Us Movie".

“It Ends with Us” is a movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel that dives deep into the complexities of love, trauma, and the difficult choices we sometimes have to make to break the cycle of abuse. The story follows Lily Bloom, a young woman who seems to have it all—a flourishing career and a blossoming romance with a charming neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid. However, as their relationship progresses, Ryle’s darker, more violent tendencies start to surface, forcing Lily to confront her past and make some of the hardest decisions of her life.

We decided to do a deep dive into our thoughts on the movie because it’s a topic close to home. We know many women who have been subject to domestic violence and some who are no longer here because of it. This book felt particularly touching because it helped put deep emotions into words. As many as 1 in 3 women worldwide are subject to DV and most of us who engage with the book and/or movie can find ourselves or our loved ones in one part of this book or another. This novel can be potentially healing for DV survivors and provide perspective for friends and family of DV survivors.

Key points:

💜The actors chosen for the movie were a good fit when compared to the descriptions in the book (Justin obviously doing great advocacy work to get us talking about DV)

💜 The movie missed some key details in the book (including the ‘full circle’ moment Lily has with her mom)

💜The movie did a great job with ‘revealing’ the events in Lily’s POV that couldn’t necessarily be done in the book

Recommendations:

💜 Movie could be made into series to capture more of the details of the book

💜 Movie could have had a call to action or resources at the very end to bring awareness to resources

Resources:

💜NDVH - Text BEGIN to 88788

💜call 800-799-7233

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