In This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, an artist faces the harsh truth about love in an attempt to find her soulmate. The movie is now streaming on Prime Video.
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Plot summary
The artist has long been fascinated by the love story of Alida and Taroo, two star-crossed lovers from two warring tribes.
They tried to hide their romance, but their love shone too bright. When Alida was forced to marry someone else, she approached the gods, who turned her into a red flower.
A heartbroken Taroo begged the gods to help him find her. They turned him into a hummingbird. Now it is said that if one sees a hummingbird flitting from flower to flower, it is Taroo searching for his true love.
The artist grew up wanting to be in love, but she learned the hard way that not all love stories have a happy ending.
After a heartbreak, the artist begins dreaming about hearts, flowers, hummingbirds, and zodiacs. The artist herself is obsessed with zodiacs.
The artist instantly falls for a Libra. However, things don’t work the way it was expected by the Zodiacal Council, who discuss the issue in space and agree to let her explore.
The artist rushes things and experiences three different marriages that all eventually end. All of her husbands criticize her for a thing or two.
The artist loses Pisces, Virgo, and Cancer and is yet to find love. At a time like this, the Zodiacal Council wants to help her, but they can’t intervene. However, the artist has friends who will be there for her.
Ending explained:
The artist’s belief
The artist’s friends think she has become a relationship addict, running from one relationship to the next.
The truth is that the artist only wants to find someone with whom she can grow old together.
Despite falling flat on her face several times, the artist has not lost hope. She still thinks she is strong. She still believes in soulmates, signs, magic, hummingbirds, that love never dies, and that good things happen to good people.
Love Addicts Anonymous
The artist’s therapist sends her to a self-help group for love addicts called Love Addicts Anonymous.
During her introduction, she mentions that she always had a restless heart. She didn’t listen to her friend’s advice to be on her own for a while. Hence, here she is, broken, after 10 years and three divorces later.
The artist feels like nobody gets her. Even she doesn’t know if she gets herself.
Loving herself
Moving on, the artist gives up on all the fairytales she used to believe in. She agrees with her friend, Mike, that there is no such thing as signs or soulmates.
However, Mike hands her his wedding invitation and claims that all of this was because of her.
The artist shares her dream with her therapist, in which she meets her younger self, who tells her that she didn’t get any love from the artist.
When the artist says she loves her, her younger self tells her to say it again. This way, the artist learns to love herself.
The artist attends Mike’s wedding without a plus one. She felt good to be there alone and to see people in love, which reminded her that love is still out there.
The artist comes to understand that she has an amazing life and incredible friends and that she is good on her own; she is happy.
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