‘This is me Now A love story’ by Jennifer Lopez on Amazon Prime: 5 great moments you shouldn’t miss

Jennifer Lopez’s new studio album is now available worldwide and has arrived with a perfect complement that helps understand the personal and professional evolution that the artist has had in the last two decades. Because This is me Now is not just the sequel to This is me then with which she surprised everyone at the beginning of the 21st century. This album and the movie that we can see on Amazon Prime as This is me Now A love story They are a deep love letter from the Bronx diva to her dreams from when she was a child.

The common thread is a JLo in love with love. And that is good in terms of the feelings that inspire and become the driving force of our lives and bad in terms of the emotion that turns into addiction. And that path is the one followed by the American artist who leaves in this film co-written by her with her husband great moments that, although they may not all be autobiographical, certainly make it very clear that she felt them almost as if they were.

An unrecognizable Ben Affleck

If you start watching the movie This is me Now A love Story on Amazon Prime and hear a news anchor named Rex Stone give a sermon about the emptiness of love, don’t be fooled. Not because of his opinion, that there is freedom of expression for this, but because behind that hair, those prostheses, that makeup and that wardrobe Ben Affleck himself is behind it.

Jennifer Lopez’s husband’s real face is never seen. We sense that this first relationship that is cut short with a motorcycle accident alludes to the filming of the film in which they both met. But beyond the fact that we all know the real story, the truth is that JLo tries to make her story as universal as possible without ever referring to who or why.

A who and a why that also appear cut out at the end when she finds (or reunites) with the man of her dreams at the end but we never see his face: only his jaw and his beard.

Little JLo

In the journey of this love story that spans her last 20 years, Jennifer Lopez has no hesitation in recognizing that her current self is as dreamy and innocent a model of the heart as her childhood self was. A role that is reserved for the young Bella Gagliano.

The interpreter took playing JLo very seriously: “I auditioned for the role. But before going to the audition, we looked at photos of JLo when she was younger and saw how she styled her hair and dressed and tried to recreate the same look and angle. When they called me they invited me to a dance studio because they also needed someone who could sing and dance. After all, J. Lo is also a singer and dancer. I did a dance audition for the title song This is Me… Now and that’s how it all started.”

The image, that look of ambition and her gestures make us recognize a singer that we never knew as a child and that is a success in this show.

The soundtrack

As it could not be otherwise, this This is me Now A love story has a powerful soundtrack in which the songs from Jennifer Lopez’s album serve to illustrate different emotional states of the singer. Much of her new songs are in the film (Hearts and flowers, Rebound, Can’t get enough, Broken like me, This is me Now (sung as a duet with his childhood self), Midnight trip or Hummingbird) and those that do not appear in the credits (This time around, Not going anywhere, Mad in love or Greatest love story).

As a concept album and audiovisual proposal, it is one of the most powerful bets that we have seen in recent years and has little or nothing to envy of the pharaonic projects of other artists such as Beyoncé for HBO. It cost him a good 20 million dollars.

Jennifer Lopez, mistreated

Toxic relationships, sexist violence and the excesses of some male couples They are also reflected in This is me Now A Love story as a fundamental part of the possible obstacles that JLo has to overcome as a woman in her dream of love.

It does not seem that in this case (from what we know about his life) it is an autobiographical aspect but it is not necessary to have experienced physical abuse to have suffered sexist violence that can be expressed through possessive people, verbal violence…

The glass house in which the scene takes place ends up cracking and bursting into a thousand pieces while the singer screams and walks out full of wounds and scars: “Don’t just sit there playing the victim. You know what it was like. You’re older, you took a decision. It is what it is” says goodbye to his toxic relationship.

just as we were

There is no doubt that This is me Now A Love story It will remain a brilliant ode to the love of Jennifer Lopez. But she hides more, much more. We want to make special mention of the fragment of the film Just as we were (The way we were, 1973) in which JLo recites entire fragments of dialogues starring Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. A classic love movie that also marked her relationship with Ben Affleck.

“That’s one of my and Ben’s favorite movies. We saw it 20 years ago. In fact, I showed it to him when we were together the last time,” the artist told EW. “It was special to me. Plus, I’m a big Barbra Streisand fan. My mom actually showed it to me. That was her favorite romantic movie growing up. So it means a lot to me.” From mothers to daughters, to husbands and granddaughters… And it is not the only cinematographic reference as we will see when Hummingbird dancing in the rain is released.

The vision of love that triumphs.