Blake Lively's It Ends With Us: The Problem With the ‘More than a Victim’ Discourse
glamour.com’s It Ends With Us press tour, and specifically her message to and generational trauma, and it gets to the heart of an important aspect of domestic violence that often gets overlooked.
So let’s talk about it.In , Lively plays Lily Bloom, a woman whose fairytale romance with Ryle (Justin Baldoni) turns into an abusive relationship when he becomes violent towards her.
At the film’s , Lively was asked what she would like to say to real life victims who might see the movie and recognize their own traumas in it. “I think that you’re so much—and not to minimize it—but you are so much more than just a survivor or just a victim,”Lively . “While that is a huge thing, you are a person of multitudes, and what someone has done to you doesn’t define you.
You define you.” She added that It Ends With Us, “is a story that covers domestic violence but it’s not about domestic violence.”The film itself is pretty good.
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