This Film Stayed in My Mind for Days… Here’s Why | All of You

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Hello everyone. This is my first post, and even though I’ve wanted to write it for a long time, I kept putting it off, which was a mistake because automatically another movie or series would catch my attention and I would lose the “ideal moment” to write about it.

However, today something happened that hadn’t occurred to me in a long time while watching a film… it stayed in my mind long after I finished it, so I decided to share it with you. I hope that those who have seen it will comment, and those who haven’t will feel encouraged to watch it.

I’m not going to overthink this review. I also haven’t done much research about the technical side for a proper critique, but I will say what it made me feel, think, and reflect on.

Specifically, this is the film: All Of You [2024]

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It’s a drama, and the main premise is this:
A stirring near-futuristic romance of two best friends who harbor an unspoken love for one another even after a test matches one of them with their supposed soulmate.

Honestly, I didn’t know the actors. I don’t remember seeing them in anything before, and that was actually refreshing, since I feel very saturated with Hollywood cinema (a topic for another time). I’ll leave their names here in case someone is familiar with their work:

• Brett Goldstein
• Imogen Poots

Honest Review

The movie takes place in a modern yet slightly advanced time, where there is a kind of chemical test that allows people to discover who their true soulmate is. This is how almost everyone meets, marries, and starts a family.

The story begins with two friends—a man and a woman—apparently friends since college. They go together to the place where she will take the famous test, and he accompanies her and even pays for it. From the very beginning, the chemistry between the actors is striking, because they truly portray lifelong friends—accomplices who perfectly know and understand each other’s personalities.

From there, the film becomes a chronology of events in which, during every crisis in the woman’s life—illness, loss, grief—the friend is always by her side.

Without giving too many spoilers, after a loss she experiences, she ends up finding refuge not in her husband (her supposed soulmate according to the test), but in her lifelong friend.

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Both of them finally unleash all the feelings they had kept hidden somewhere deep in their souls. Obviously, he had always been in love with her, and she with him—but she already has a husband and a daughter. A perfect husband, for everything she needs.

The film doesn’t have a sugary, cliché “happy ending,” but it is humanly honest and deeply reflective. At some point, I saw myself reflected in it. I thought about that best friend I had in college who is now only a distant memory from the past.

This film feels like it was made for everyone who once left behind a relationship that could have been, and it answers questions some of us have asked ourselves at some point… “What if…?”

Anyway, I recommend it if you’re in the mood for this kind of drama—nothing overly romanticized, but profoundly human. Something we don’t see very often these days.

If you’ve seen it, let me know what you think.