It’s… honestly a bit boring. The story is not bad, but it’s a very slow building, and only becomes intriguing half-way through, but still the ending is rather unsatisfying, so not a movie to watch and rewatch, no. It was enough the first time, actually, I was tempted to give up more than once.
Details:
In a small town in the south lives Ethan, who has lost his mother in a car accident and lives with a father who never lives his room. He dreams of leaving, and he literally dreams of loving a girl he has never met.
Lena is the new girl in town, and her uncle is the infamous Ravenwood. Everyone talks badly of him, as if he and his family are satanists or something. The popular girl in class are all ‘my mum says’, all prayers and bad-mouth.
Ethan is intrigued by this girl. He finds a locket and wants to give it to her so he goes to her house. Ravenwood sort of freaks him out, when Ethan tries to say how he wishes to study far away from here and instead he starts saying how he will live here for the rest of his life, marrying a girl and having an affair with another, divorcing and becoming an alcoholic until he commits suicide, or something like that.
When he and Lena both touch the locket they have a vision (of a couple in love that died during a war?) and wakes up at his house with no recollection of how he got there. He goes back and a spell prevents him from reaching the house until Lena arrives to save him. She tells him her family is different, they have powers, and she’s tired of hiding. In two or three months she will be sixteen, and then her powers will be judged, and only her true nature will decide if she’ll belong to the light or the darkness.
Macon’s sister Saraphine arrives to bring trouble. She’s of the dark. Ridley is Lena’s cousin, and Larkin’s brother. Nobody seems happy to see Ridley, she was not invited. She was claimed by the dark. She speaks of a curse Lena knows nothing about. Lena says Ridley wasn’t so bad before she turned sixteen, they were like sisters, then she was claimed by the dark and became what she is, she’s like a siren, and we see she caused a guy’s death.
Lena and Ethan touch the locket again, and they see a Genevieve in love with an Ethan, but he was shot and she was desperate so she used magic to revive him, then she turned dark and killed him, and went on killing, and Saraphine, her mother, says that they are all dark because they are Genevieve’s descendants. It was a forbidden spell. There’s no love in the darkness.
Macon says that they can’t love mortals, and that Lena must leave Ethan, but he’s afraid for her (he says that he knows her like he knows himself… kids…)
Seraphine possesses Mrs Lincoln to go after Ethan, and he’s finally had enough. He barges into Lena’s house saying that nobody will keep him away, he’ll stay with her, and thus he breaks the spell her family used to protect her, and he’s now the one who protects her.
They go to Amma for help on the curse. For weeks they go to the magical library to read an ancient powerful book, and she gets bitter and afraid, she starts changing, but he doesn’t leave and stays with her.
She finds that in order to break the curse, the one she loves must die. She tells Amma she’ll never hurt him, but there are many ways to ‘die’.
She takes the memories of her away from him, and he wakes up thinking that he barely knows her, that she’s nothing to him.
Seraphine and Ridley are still plotting against them. There’s a war re-enactment and Ridley charmed Ethan’s friend Link so that when they shoot each other, Link shoots him for real.
Only it wasn’t really Ethan, it was Macon with a glamour, his idea to protect them both and break the curse nonetheless, because ‘someone she loves has to die’, so Macon dies.
Lena confronts her mother and cousin. Ridley says it wasn’t her idea and begs for her forgiveness, and thanks her when she tells her to go, and she flees. Seraphine keeps wanting her on the dark side, but she battles her, and forces her out of that body and… turns her into dead wood? Not clear here, is Seraphine dead now or simply gone from here?
Anyway, six months later, Ethan still doesn’t remember anything, and he’s leaving, a tour around colleges, maybe New York University, and he stops to talk to her after saying goodbye to Amma.
He drives away with Link at the wheel, but as soon as they pass the town border, we see the car stopping and he yells Lena’s name. The end.
Oh, and we see that she has one normal eye, and one coloured like her mother, which means she’s half-light, half-dark.
Macon- Jeremy Irons
Lena- Alice Englert
Ethan- Alden Ehrenreich
Amma- Viola Davis
Ridley- Emmy Rossum
Mrs Lincoln/Sarafine- Emma Thompson
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