{"id":34226,"date":"2020-12-01T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=34226"},"modified":"2020-12-01T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:00:35","slug":"if-anything-happens-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/01\/if-anything-happens-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If Anything Happens I Love You: The Stellar Short That Became an Internet Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the bigger more interesting memes at Tiktok right now is the \u201c#IfAnythingHappensILoveYouChallenge.\u201d This particular meme involves a person or people filming themselves before and filming themselves after watching \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You\u201d on Netflix. Every video so far has shown each viewer beginning the movie with a nervous smirk and closing the video with teary eyes. Some of the users are nearly inconsolable afterward. If you didn\u2019t think a short film could legitimately derive so many emotions from viewers, well them you probably have never seen \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The short animated movie is probably the most gut wrenching, and heartbreaking short form film I\u2019ve ever seen. If you need something to compare it to, imagine the prologue to \u201cUp\u201d but infinitely sadder. It\u2019s a marvel that it\u2019s on Netflix and being given such huge exposure. Whether accidental, or planned, Will McCormack\u2019s and Michael Gorvier\u2019s tale of two parents grieving the loss of their only child is a film everyone can relate to. It\u2019s a film bereft of filler, or simple solutions. What it examines is a horrible situation, an inexplicable act of violence, and how the best we can do is hold on to one another through the hard times.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s very little emphases on the \u201cwho\u201d and the \u201cwhat\u201d involving the trio of characters in \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You\u201d and that\u2019s a stellar element. It allows the audience to relate the general narrative easily, and lets us click in to the emotional turmoil being endured. Even if you\u2019ve never been a parent in your life, it\u2019s easy to connect to the near timeless void that the film is set in.<\/p>\n

Told through a mixture of flashbacks, and alternate scenarios, we meet two parents that are still trying to rebuild after the death of their daughter. A lot of what\u2019s not spoken between them begins to surface, as they find her shirt, stumble in to old places where she wiled away her days playing soccer, and of course, get lost in her favorite record. There is also the final hours before she\u2019d lost her life in a school shooting. A lot of \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You\u201d leads in to the whole \u201cWhat if\u201d conundrums involving school shootings.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are the thoughts on what if they\u2019d been earlier or later to school that day? What if they didn\u2019t go to school at all? What if they\u2019d given them one more hug? One more kiss? Told them how much they cherish them? All the parents here know is that they\u2019ll never have the chance to hold their daughter again, and the rift her loss creates amounts to genuinely strong emotions about finding a reason to keep going when someone we adore is gone. What do you do to move on? How do you move on? When do you (and can you) begin to pick up the pieces?<\/p>\n

The Laura Dern produced animated short doesn\u2019t confront the idea of school shootings, so much as it confronts the massive gaping loss we experience when we\u2019ve lost a child to senseless, horrible violence. Whether intentional or not, everything around the death of child also begins to die in the aftermath, and fallout. This is an added element to the narrative that makes it even more emotionally turbulent, especially as the directors give credence to the memory of the film\u2019s young victim aching to keep the last remnants of her happy life in tact.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You\u201d is a masterpiece of a drama, it\u2019s a movie that brilliantly explores the immense amount of grief, loss, and sadness that emerges from a horrendous school shooting. It\u2019s pitch perfect in its look at struggling to move on, and looking for some kind of light in the darkness.<\/p>\n

If you can make it through the entire twelve minutes without pausing to breathe, \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You<\/a>\u201d is a masterpiece worth seeking out.<\/p>\n

Now Streaming on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the bigger more interesting memes at Tiktok right now is the \u201c#IfAnythingHappensILoveYouChallenge.\u201d This particular meme involves a person or people filming themselves before and filming themselves after watching \u201cIf Anything Happens I Love You\u201d on Netflix. Every video so far has shown each viewer beginning the movie with a nervous smirk and closing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[99,240,302,340,501,938],"class_list":["post-34226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-pcthugs","tag-animation","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34232,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34226\/revisions\/34232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}