did she have to get raped?


that's the only thing I found really disturbing.. and why Jamie the otherwise decent guy?

did Nola feel a need to be "punished" for her behavior?

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Having just watched it, I have to respectfully disagree with the people who have said that Jamie felt he owned Nola and was reasserting control. I believe that he was deliberately trying to hurt her in a way that would get through to her how much she had hurt him, after words had failed. Nola confused sex with love. In Jamie's eyes, that's what she wanted from him: sex without love. So that's what he gave her - a hateful parody of lovemaking, not "rough sex" but forced sex, sex without tenderness or consideration. If it wasn't rape it wasn't too far removed.

When he's finished, Jamie says something to the effect that this isn't the person he really is but could get used to it (more specifically, "I kinda liked it" or something like that.) Personally, I don't think he means it (the bitter sound of his voice is a clue). It's an inarticulate challenge to her, 'Is this your idea of love? Is this what you want me to be?' More directly, though, he wanted to hurt her emotionally the way he'd been hurt. To that point, she'd been callous to the pain she was causing her lovers.

Edit: wanna stress, I'm neither condemning Nola nor endorsing Jamie. Both are flawed, complex characters who cared for each other but were mismatched, were never going to understand each other.

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I didn't think it was rape. Just rough sex.

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