Nothing Ever Really Ends Analysis

Nothing Ever Really Ends But It Changes

Nothing Ever Really Ends is a short film directed by Jakob Rorvik that focuses on a series of intimate moments between a young couple. It's not the type of romance that paints a clear, distinct image of love as everlasting and absolute. In fact, what makes the film so enticing is that it's a love story about finding the courage to break up. It follows the couple throughout three New Year's Eves and shows that resolutions can be bittersweet. Even when something ends, it's never really over because it lives on through the memories.

The film begins with the ticking of time and this sound is a theme that continues throughout the film, whenever a new year in their lives is shown. Overall, it works to build up to the ending of their relationship. It's counting down their time together and creating anticipation. Also, the decision to have this story told specifically through a bunch of New Year's Eves is clever. New Year's is a period of reminiscing the past and getting prepared for the next year with all its changes. The irony is that this couple doesn't experience actual change. They just keep containing themselves in this cycle of bitter sarcasm, hateful comments, and mild affection. They are showing nostalgia for the past, but they aren't moving on with …show more content…
To display a love story to an audience is a difficult enough feat, but to also show this relationship as being seasoned to the point of a break up is a hell of a challenge. They had to create a sense of familiarity and an intimacy that is not as fast moving as two people in the prime of their relationship. These are young people, but the relationship is old and if it didn't come across as such then the film would've lost its ammunition. Rodin and Berning were exceptionally believable through the arguments, the lighter moments of nostalgia and every emotion in