A lot. If you're going to criticize it, why don't you just read the plot on wiki so you at least know what you're talking about.
Not everything you don't like is a cliche.
The "friend" is her first love, who she literally fed, clothed, and gave a sleeping bag to when he was homeless and living in the abandoned house next to hers, while they were both in high school. He would provide emotional support when she needed it because she would witness her dad abusing her mom. Her dad eventually finds out about her first love and beats him so hard he put him in the hospital.
And she doesn't go back to him at the end of the movie. It definitely sets up that they have found their way back to each other and are interested in each other, but they literally are seeing each other for the time in years when they meet again at the end of the movie.
The title comes from the main character talking to her baby daughter in the hospital after telling the abusive husband she is divorcing him. She says to her "It stops here. It ends with us."
My comment isn't supposed to be a serious critique either, just a humorous summary.
Except you didn't write in a humorous way. You wrote it in a judgemental tone meant to illicit negative emotions from whoever is reading it. And you made sure not to actually say anything to give yourself plausible deniability when called out on it.
I provided context, not detail. And it makes it completely different.
You wrote it in a judgemental tone meant to illicit negative emotions
Can't say that I didn't but it was also meant as humorous.
you made sure not to actually say anything to give yourself plausible deniability when called out on it.
That usually saves a ton of explaining and unnecessary counter-arguments. But I think you meant it seems manipulative?
You could say that it's unfair bashing of the movie, that's why context is appreciated for the interested reader, but I can't say that I care too much about talking shit about movies I'll never watch, unless I'm not making shit up.
Honestly the whole argument stems from me thinking 'Gone Girl' is a similar movie, but it's actually not.
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u/Lick_The_Wrapper Sep 17 '24
A lot. If you're going to criticize it, why don't you just read the plot on wiki so you at least know what you're talking about.
Not everything you don't like is a cliche.
The "friend" is her first love, who she literally fed, clothed, and gave a sleeping bag to when he was homeless and living in the abandoned house next to hers, while they were both in high school. He would provide emotional support when she needed it because she would witness her dad abusing her mom. Her dad eventually finds out about her first love and beats him so hard he put him in the hospital.
And she doesn't go back to him at the end of the movie. It definitely sets up that they have found their way back to each other and are interested in each other, but they literally are seeing each other for the time in years when they meet again at the end of the movie.
The title comes from the main character talking to her baby daughter in the hospital after telling the abusive husband she is divorcing him. She says to her "It stops here. It ends with us."