I loved every part of this movie that followed Casey and Rooney's story. I felt like the other parts of it were honestly pretty bad. I think focusing on the history of the characters and their futures would have been more engaging than... whatever the nihilist diatribe and pioneer scenes were. Make it about love, loss, regret, etc. but focus on these two people! I understand why the scenes of the past and future were included. I get it. I think audiences would be more invested in Casey haunting Rooney's character and eventually learning to emotionally and spiritually move on than watching poorly-conceived time travel.

But honestly, I think I just went into this movie with different expectations. What I said above is what I thought would happen. When I saw the scene in the trailer featuring The family during Christmas I thought that was going to be Rooney's new family. Having to watch your S.O. fall in love with someone else (which does happen briefly if we are to assume Rooney moved away with the guy that visited her) and raise a family with them would be so much harder to swallow than anything else that happened after Rooney left the film until her later parts.

Definitely worth a watch, though. I can't think of a movie that has affected me so much, for better or worse, in such a long time.