I Love You Forever

For those of you that haven't dated alot and kept things on the surface with relationships, this is an uncomfortably accurate depiction of how gaslighting can microscopically start to eat away at your life.

I recognize the behavior of our Lead Male as someone who studies behavior for a living. He can dramatically escalate every situation and immediately be the victim, which further sends him an abusive emotional spiral.

What he does to MacKenzie throughout the movie is tear her souls apart by quickly love bombing her, drowning her in a false narrative of love and affection and sex, then quickly flipping the mirror and ridiculing her, stalking her and mentally abusing her because she "isn't giving him anything in return."

One has to understand human behavior to enjoy the movie. It's a low budget indie with focus on human condition. It does the job nicely.

The "dark comedy" aspect did not work and was, frankly, inappropriate considering the subject matter. Low production value. Would have been better as an after-school special - shooter and without the graphic sex references. Feel bad for the actors, who I'm sure did their best with an awful script and overall vision. Just terrible.

I don't normally watch these type of movies, but I just wanted to give something random a try and I think because I have had very similar experiences it spoke to me, and because of that I loved it. It's definitely an Indie vibe, but it is funny, dramatic, and although some things are definitely made more dramatic for movie purposes it is still realistic. I think for especially millennials and younger it's incredibly relatable. I believe it will touch a lot of people's hearts in an unexpected way. It was really well done.

"I Love You Forever" begins with a couple in bed. However, the guy is a total d*** who only wants sex from the woman and doesn't seem to give a darn about her even though there are hints the woman would like more than just late night booty calls. The woman is McKenzie, played by the always good Sofia Black-D'Elia, and she is a law student. She has a quirky roommate and a close guy friend, and at a birthday party for her roommate she meets Finn, played by Ray Nicholson. Finn is a rich, good-looking, ultra successful man who is the lead news anchor for a local TV station. He begins to smoothly woo her and give her gifts and before long they're head over heels with each other. But he suddenly starts to get very needy and clingy and we watch as the relationship unfolds...

I think this was intended to be a deep story about emotional issues in a relationship, but it doesn't succeed. None of it rings true, the dialog sounds like it was written by a Diablo Cody wanna-be (and I was a little surprised to see Diablo listed at the end as a producer!). Finn gets very needy and it never makes sense -- he's rich, good looking, clearly very smooth and confident around women, so his sudden personality change doesn't make sense. But worst of all, Black-D'Elia makes McKenzie incredibly appealing and her repeatedly making incomprehensible decisions is wildly annoying. I mean, literally the last hour of this film is us screaming at the TV, "What are you doing, McKenzie? What are you thinking of?" The movie means to make Finn the "bad guy" and we certainly dislike him, but he never comes off as more than just weird and annoying.

I love supporting small indie films, so it sort of pains me to speak ill of "I Love You Forever." You could definitely do worse, but I suspect that most people just won't find it an entertaining way to spend 90 minutes.

This was a happy find for me and not at all what I expected. The first scene, I was like, oh no, not another one of those movies. Then the tone shifted and I started to chuckle. I laughed through a lot of the film, and was insanely annoyed through a good bit of it. The parts with Finn. Arrrgggh! I loved the friends and thought the writing was top notch. Many of us have been in this type of relationship, but to a much lesser degree. I decided to go to IMDb and review it, which I rarely do unless I am really impressed. Finding out who the writers were and that is was based on a true story sent me on another search. I can totally see PD having this personality trait. Cazzie what a ride it must have been. I will end with the old cliche "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (although sometimes you wish it had.) Great film girl!!