Just finished watching this again on netflix and I gotta say Bobby holds up pretty damn well after getting raped! I mean *beep* you'd think he would be a bit more shaken up after that! Literally right after he gets raped in the ass by a hillbilly hes up and acting more or less normal...
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I thought so too. I mean right after the incident he was in shock. But, after that he seemed like nothing had happened. He was more concerned about getting caught. But, seeing him eating dinner with those people like nothing happend, and John Voight was the one who broke down I was like, wth?! Shouldn't it be reversed.
shareI thought so too. I mean right after the incident he was in shock. But, after that he seemed like nothing had happened. He was more concerned about getting caught. But, seeing him eating dinner with those people like nothing happend, and John Voight was the one who broke down I was like, wth?! Shouldn't it be reversed.
That is very understandable but when John Voight broke down at the dinner table no one asked him what was wrong they just kept on taking and eating.
shareThat is very understandable but when John Voight broke down at the dinner table no one asked him what was wrong they just kept on taking and eating.
Bobby's primary concern was that nobody outside the group hear about the rape. So strong was his need for secrecy, to not be embarrassed
Sounds like men who are on the downlow, except they repeatedly go out looking for anonymous and casual, quick relations with other men or transgenders, then they go back to their regular life as if they are simply good ol' heterosexual boys.
I have to laugh at your comment because I'm a transsexual and transitioned 30 years ago at UTMB gender clinic in Galveston, Texas. It's total lie that most of them live stealth and nobody knows. Most I've known were not totally passable as females. With one, people would even Clock her in public as trans. I have no idea how she could get away with dating and marrying a man and no one would know as you claim, plus her sons and other family member do not refer to her as a "she" and "her," but as a male.
Even one I know who is a post-op transsexual brought a man home that she, at first, didn't think he knew but he came out and said he thought something was a little "off" about her, but didn't want to say anything. She went into a deep funk for several days after that because she thought she was fooling him. She never saw him again.
It's also a lie that trans are more feminine than genetic women. None I've known were like that. A few worked as caregivers, another worked as a security guard and others worked in motel or office house keeping as I do. Not exactly fem glamour queens. My only guess is you watch way too much she-male pornography. That's what it sounds like, a plot in a porno film you are relating but not reality. Also, if they live so stealth as you say, then how do you know they are transsexuals but no one else does? You're a liar.
Your objectivity was so very refreshing for me, and just what I needed to see in the waning days of IMDb.
I've always considered myself very socially liberal, but I quite honestly find much of the movement these days to be a laughable embarrassment with their preposterously idealized conceptions of reality, rationalization of poor behaviour by perceived "allies", and general allergy to logic.
Thank you for this
shareStfu. A man who has sex with another person born with testicles is doing a homosexual act. He's having sex with another man, no matter what that other man "identifies himself" as. As an example: if i boink a woman that "identifies" as a cat, am i then a zoophile or a straight man? It's highly offensive that you deny truth, science and logic. Shame on you.
shareI gotta say Bobby holds up pretty damn well after getting raped! I mean *beep* you'd think he would be a bit more shaken up after that! Literally right after he gets raped in the ass by a hillbilly hes up and acting more or less normal...
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I have a feeling it's because the scene was filmed over several days, or even weeks, so he didn't have the same emotions during the rape scene when it happened as in the next scene. I guess he couldn't stay in character very well.
Yeah, I thought that too.
He also becomes the most reliable person (moreso than Lewis) for Ed.
Unrealistic? Maybe. But I liked that character.
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Yeah agreed, he really does. The person you’d least expect to step up does.
shareYeah agreed, he really does. The person you’d least expect to step up does.
Drew was dead and Lewis had his femur bone poking through the skin of his right leg. Who else was left?
Well somebody had to.
shareI just meant that Lewis was the core strength of the group, he was the one the others depended on. After he was incapacitated it was up to Bobby to help Ed.
shareI do agree that Bobby appeared initially to be somebody who might break down and be utterly useless. He avoided that and showed surprising grit, but it seems to me his contributions after Lewis went down are being a bit overrated. Ed did all the work climbing out of the gorge and putting an arrow through ol' toothless. Ed also had to save them a second time by finessing the cops after some of Bobby's missteps.
shareNot to sound too crude but Bobby’s ass would’ve been pretty sore afterward, it’s probably a good thing he spent so much time in the water at the end, soothing lol.
shareMakes sense to me. At first he's in shock, and then he's fixated on survival. Now, let me tell you, I'm gay, and the DL guys do NOT want to have any conversation about themselves typically. So a guy who's legit straight and didn't want it? He's not going to take the therapy approach to it, he doesn't want to keep talking about it and reliving it to his friends who were there for it, he wants to pretend it never happened. Never mind that they were so focused on survival that it really wasn't the time or place for a chat.
shareMaybe he's still in survival mode up to the very end when the sheriff tells them to never come back. Perhaps his frame of mind was that he still had to pull himself together and maybe hide his trauma.
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