Tayla Bailey-Harris

As a compulsive re watcher of movies/shows who will watch a good film over & over & over until I know the script myself lol I base a good movie on ‘would I watch this again?’ Unfortunately for ‘we live in time’ the answer is no. The film outlines life’s greatest/hardest times, accomplishments, failures, love and loss. To start with some positives the acting is great which is expected from such actors, also the young girl grace who plays the mains daughter did a wonderful job. In many scenes there is no background music it is simply what life sounds like which I really appreciated & made it seem all the more ‘real’ Tobias, the main male character had such a warm, kind, wears his heart on his sleeve type of presence. We don’t know much about him other than he works at weatbix, has a divorce & lives with his dad. Would have liked to know more about him. I can’t say the same for Almut the main female character. I tried my best to like her but she was simply unlikeable. It seemed like a dull impersonation of Bridget jones where she used the word fuck as much as possible & had a ‘this is me deal with it’ personality only without the charm. She was mean, rude & ungrateful constantly changing her mind about major life decisions. She got engaged then completely disregarded getting married & instead chose to focus on a chef competition??? Her poor fiancé Tobias was left hanging & they never even get married. This seemed like yet another feminist approach shoved into a film to somehow make us believe that winning a competition is more important than your own partner. In the end she left the competition right before finding out if she wins. Talk about a waste of time. In the end she dies of cancer which is tragic but as someone who cries very easily in films not one tear was shed. We didn’t get to see a death scene, funeral or anything. For a film outlining life I was expecting a very sad goodbye scene & when the credits rolled I was shocked & disappointed. All we get is a cliche her waving to her husband to signify she will die and we just assume she did. Not to be insensitive but she could have from the beginning got her cancer taken out by having a hysterectomy and she would have lived. She chose to keep her ovary so she could have kids even though it was cancerous. For someone who didn’t even want kids at the beginning of the movie she ended up dying to have one when she could have just frozen her eggs & had a surrogate carry her child. Wasn’t the worst thing I’ve seen but the trailer made it look a lot better than it is. 2 stars

‘It ends with us’ is one of those movies that you think about for weeks after seeing it. It has been a LONG time since I have experienced this. I walked into the theatre knowing nothing about it. I was expecting yet another drama romance, and don’t get me wrong there is drama AND romance but unlike what I had anticipated. Without giving spoilers the film is centred around a florist (Lily Bloom) opening her shop, meeting new love, re encountering old love and breaking generational cycles. This movie had me so far on the edge of my seat I forgot to finish eating my popcorn🤣🍿 The acting was truely tremendous, the costumes wild and stunningly unique but the soundtrack is what moved me. WARNING: Taylor swifts ‘my tears ricochet’ at the height of the movie is played so bring your tissues🤧 The ONLY complaint I have without giving anything away is a certain someone should have had much harsher consequences. Unfortunately his actions didn’t see any. BUT it is based on a book so I understand they followed the story already written. Can’t wait for the sequel! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️