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Taylor Swift releases ‘All Too Well’ short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien - top 35 reactions

Taylor Swift releases ‘All Too Well’ short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien - top 35 reactions

Taylor Swift has released the re-recording of her 2012 album: Red (Taylor’s Version), and everyone is talking about the heartbreaking 10-minute version of “All Too Well.”

Although the song wasn’t a single when the album originally came out nine years ago, the break-up song soon captured fan’s hearts.

Get ready to cry some more, as an accompanying short film for the song has also been released (and it’s an emotional one).

The 15-minute film stars 19-year-old Stranger Things actor Sadie Sink and the 30-year-old Mazerunner actor Dylan O’Brien as doomed love interests navigating the ups and downs of their relationship, leading to inevitable heartbreak.

Swifties couldn’t help but notice the age gap between the actors is similar to the one when 19-year-old Swift had with actor Jake Gyllenhaal who was 30 at the time when they had a brief three-month relationship between 2010 and 2011, which the song is supposed to about.

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The film charts six chapters that signify important points within the relationship, such as the romantic beginnings in “The Upstate Escape,” before the “The First Crack In The Glass” first signals problems in the relationship as O’Brien refused to hold Sink’s hand in front of his friends.

And fans were not impressed with O’Brien’s character after this move.

Then, the “Are You Real?” chapter sees the pair happy together until they are shattered completely with “The Breaking Point” as O’Brien’s character breaks up with Sink, and then “The Reeling” shows Sink struggling to come to terms with the split and “The Remembering” sees O’Brien reflect on their relationship.

Thirteen years later (note Swift’s lucky number), Sink’s character is now grown up and is played by Swift herself who writes a book called “All Too Well” about her heartbreak all those years ago - and the chapters in the film are actually chapters in her book.

During a book reading, O’Brien’s character - now played by Jake Lyons - looks in from outside, wearing the red scarf that his ex wore at the beginning of the film and left at his sister’s house, referencing lyrics from the song.

After that emotional rollercoaster, it’s no surprise that Swifties were well and truly in their feels, while praising Sink and O’Brien’s excellent performances.

It also marks Swift’s directorial film debut as she brought her lyrics to life - and has already been viewed nearly 10m times since it was released on YouTube last night.

“It was really wonderful working with Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien,” Swift said during her appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

“They’re just absolutely—I’m just blown away by what they did in this short film. I wrote this short film and wanted to direct it, and the only two people that I imagined playing the two characters, it was Sadie and Dylan.”

Of course, her fans were also bursting with pride at this milestone and praised her work:

They were also there for Swift’s red hair in the video.

Fans also connected the dots to another song on Red, with the birthday party scene where Sink is left disappointed when O’Brien doesn’t turn up - reminding them of The Moment I Knew.

Fans also joked at Jake Gyllenhaal’s expense and also wonder how he would react to the film.

Red (Taylor’s Version) is the second album Swift has recorded, after previously releasing a re-record version of 2008 album Fearless in April this year.

She also plans to record all of her work released under Big Machine Records after they sold her masters in 2019 to American talent manager Scooter Braun.

If you fancy checking it out, you can catch All Too Well: The Short Film on YouTube.

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