Eternity (2025)

I actually really, really enjoyed this. It’s not easy to find something original to say about love, but this film found a way. Eternity confronts you with the impossible question: which love is greater? The dreamy, sparkly fairytale one that you only knew before you knew loss, one you can only fantasize about because you never had the opportunity to see how it would end, or the messy, thorny, but real one that you spent decades building with someone that you sometimes can’t even stand?

Many may think the movie answers this question definitively based on the ending, but I actually don’t think it does. I think the story captures the nuance well that both kinds of love are among greatest gifts life has to offer, but depending on who you are as a person, you may opt for one over the other at different times. 

The scene that moved me the most was when Joan was racing back to find Larry, and was being shown all the bad memories of their marriage, all their fights, the bad and the ugly, I was worried that she’d escape, only to decide not to choose Larry again, but she didn’t even waver. She knows the bad and the ugly comes with every relationship and that real love is knowing that and choosing the other person regardless and trusting they’d do the same for you. And Larry did.  

Realistically though, I think all three of them should have gone for their own eternity. They all should have taken up the offer by the perpetually tipsy woman at the bar peddling the debaucherous sex eternity. But this is a movie about love, and by that virtue, it has a good ending. I recommend.