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How does It Ends With Us depict Ryle’s abuse in the film? The film’s treatment of domestic violence differs significantly from the book, with scenes even playing out in a different way. When Ryle burns his hands, he does not push Lily to the ground until he tries to cool them off under the sink. In the film, this happens immediately after Ryle touches the hot surface. In the book, Lily was supposed to be laughing uncontrollably from intoxication throughout that scene (until Ryle becomes violent). Ryle tells Lily in the book, “Goddammit Lily.” It’s not funny. This hand is the f–king career of my life.
And, after Ryle pushes Lily to the bottom of the stairs in her book, she kicks him out and leaves him sleeping in the hallway for the night. The film also portrays the conversations around abuse differently. In the film, Ryle does not learn of Lily’s history of domestic abuse until they have been dating for a long time, but it occurs on their first date in the book. In the new movie, Lily’s sister-in law Allyssa tells Lily that Ryle shot his brother accidentally as a child. In the book it is Ryle who tells Lily about his brother’s death, and Allyssa does not warn Lily that she should not take Ryle back because of his abusive behavior.
