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It Ends with US!



Yesterday I saw 'It ends with us', and it was a beautiful story. But more than that it was the very first time I saw an adult English movie in a theater with literally everyone my age (GenZs and Millennials). The aura was so different from other theatrical experiences because there were 97% girls and just a handful of boys who also had come along with girls. It was a theater full of nerdy bookworm girls, extremely enthusiastic about their favorite novel (That some of them got their copies to the theater too) and excited to see its translation into a movie. The best part of watching a movie with bookworm nerdy people is that you actually hear silences between the dialogues partly as English movies do not have a lot of background score behind every scene and partly because girls don't create any chaos while watching the movie (I might sound a little biased here but that is what I have experienced).

 

Well, I was today years old when I found out that English movies do not have a proper interval, like we have in our movies. They just abruptly stop in between so abruptly that you might feel that suddenly there is some technical issue, but due to their short duration they don't have intervals. The GenZs cannot sit idle, as soon as the interval struck, some of them rushed to the washroom, the rest of them were posting stories and catching up on the reels they missed in the last hour while they were busy watching the movie. Everyone in the theater shot so many scenes in their phones, that if all those clips of all the people were combined they could actually make the movie's pirated version.

 

We GenZs are probably not living in the moment, we are simply clicking in the moment. We want to capture every single detail so that our phone's internal storage, hard-disk, cloud or drive can store our memories for us. But we do have an internal storage within us too, and maybe by 'living in the moment' we can store a lot more there than any other external device. We are generally so awestruck when our grandparents and parents tell us anecdotes from decades back with so much details, as if it happened just yesterday, because they chose to store their memories in their internal storage and not any external storage devices, so they have those memories intact even after so many years and experiences later. I think we should rely more on our internal memory, by living in the moment completely and not capturing it and seeing it from our mobile's lenses, but through our own eyes. The meaning of It ends with us is beautiful in the movie and something totally different than what one would expect, but as a generation I feel the addiction of mobile phones should probably end with us!

 

Previously I have had an experience of reading a book and watching a movie, which was disappointing, so this time around I did not read this book to avoid any expectations and disappointments. And so I loved the movie, it was a mix of all human emotion packed in with a beautiful storyline. My favorite character from the movie was Allysa (Ryle's sister), she was the greenest flag as a sister, wife and foremost as a friend!

 

PS:  I would like to thank my sister for suggesting this movie.

 

Happy Reading,

 

Siddhi Bhosale.



 



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