Why People Hating “It Ends With Us”, Is It Because of Blake And Ryan?

It Ends With Us” is one of Colleen Hoover’s most trending books sold about 6.9 million printed and ebooks. The book was out in 2012, and after 12 years, the creator decided to make a movie with the same name. People were so happy before the premiere but after the release of the movie, Twitter and other similar platforms are filled with hate.

The reasons why some people dislike “It Ends With Us” vary, but here’s a breakdown of the main criticisms related to Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and the film’s portrayal of relationships:

Criticism of Blake Lively:

Still, some of the commentators complained that Lively’s promotional activity for the picture was too joyful, which was extraneous to the theme of domestic violence. Her concentration was too much on fashion and levity during interviews was considered insensitive.

The past Behavior of Blake also affected her career in “It Ends with Us.” Some replays of past interviews of Lively during which she presented herself as arrogantly and dismissive to people’s reports and this augmented negative sentiments against her.

However, many state that her cheerful and colorful personality of Blake doesn’t suit the theme of the movie and plotline.

Here are some tweets sporting this:

Audience don’t even like her clothes, here what Dani said: “Me every time Lily Bloom debuted a new costume on screen“

Not even her behaviour, “Blake is Serena. Narcissist in real life just like she was on the show.”

Criticism of Ryan Reynolds:

As for the portrayal of Ryan Reynolds, albeit to a lesser extent compared to Blake Lively, there was equally some criticism of his involvement in “It Ends With Us”. The first problem was that his clowning and image distracted from the film’s tone.

Here’s a breakdown of the criticism:

• Mismatched Tone: Reynolds is admired for the comedic character his performance’s portray most of the time. It made many audience members feel like there is a kind of disturbance when it comes to the contrast and the lighter note of this film’s comedic and dramatic elements versus the grave storyline.

A review about the mismatch tone by Gracle: “Honestly fuck blake lively like this ends with us shit it’s disgusting like i knew she and ryan were out of touch but this is another level.”

• Distraction from the Story: There was controversy when he even contributed in creating promotional material such as posters and calendars which some considered as distracting from the main message of his film.
• Undermining Seriousness: Others feared that Reynolds’ playful image might sort of trivialise the issue of domestic violence.

In other words, although the criticism pointed at the fact that Ryan Reynolds might have distorted the film and its message by making himself look too approachable for controversies, it seems to lie at the root of a curious juxtaposition: a comedy film that has attacked the audience with a message that could potentially polarize viewers.

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Criticism of Film’s Portrayal:

One of the most frequent critiques of the novel is that it offers a one-sided, or even unrealistic, portrayal of domestic violence. Several of the audience noted that the movie did not capture the essence of a manipulative and abusive man played by Ryan. Let’s talk about the plot criticism.

• Oversimplification of abuse: Critics pointed out that it portrayed domestic violence simply as a black-and-white scenario with no notion of its circularity and the psychological behavior that is sometimes involved.
• Unrealistic character behaviors: Some of the elliptical and iconized actions or decisions of characters were considered utterly unrealistic and contrary to the real life of women and men survivors of domestic violence.
• Lack of depth: Criticisms levelled at the film was that the psychological effects of abuse both on the victims and the perpetrators was not explored sufficiently.
• Focus on Romance: Another criticism that has been made concerning the movie is the fact that it focused more on the romantic scenes that the issue on domestic violence. Some viewers had complaints that the show chose to focus on the love triangle as well as romantic feelings of the characters instead of the real picture of abuse.

Here what Taylibrarian said: “So is a film about domestic violence serious and worthy of careful press or not? Or are you just posting viral clips for clicks and reporting on what social media is talking about?”

This led to concerns that:

• Romanticizing abuse: As for the portrayal of the unhealthy and specifically abusive relationship, especially at the beginning of the series, one can discuss the issues of idealization of the relationship like that.
• Downplaying the severity: Thus, it can be discussing of the film that while it successfully portrayed the romantic aspect in Jan’s character, it did not pay sufficient attention to the effects of domestic

In many cases, the movie offended those people who in one or other way experienced domestic violence in their families. Loosely depicting violence, manipulation, or displaying the internal emotional struggle the characters go through is rather distressing to survivors.

Final Words

This criticism also shows that such films should not be produced in a way that retraumatises the viewers and that these topics should be handled keenly. All these criticisms are well reminders that it is sometimes near to impossible to try to translate complicated and contentious matters such as domestic abuse into a commercial cinema.

As much as it may be done with the best of intent to create awareness and provoke discussions, topics such as these require a lot of care and sensitivity for they have the potential of reinforcing unhealthy stereotyping or retraumatising survivors.

Have you seen the movie yet? Do you have a particular scene or a particular characters performance in the film that you would like to talk about?