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The 35 year-old virgin?

posted 16 years ago by tumbleweeds
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When you think about it, it's likely she was a virgin. She was blinded at age 8, in a very traumatic abusive way. She was obviously messed up.

So do you think sex with the detective was her first time? She even mentions that she never felt beautiful even when she could finally see herself, because she doesn't even know what beauty is supposed to look like (not to mention the fact that she realizes she looks just like her mother).

Then after she has sex, she is pretty clingy with the guy (luckily he's already crazy about her)

To me it seems like typical teenage virgin behavior, clinging to her first "love"

The movie kind of glossed over it and made it seem like sex was the most natural thing in the world for this woman, more natural than navigating a train car in Chicago or a staircase, apparently. Seemed a little odd to me.....

[–] ksjazzguitar 16 years ago

I don't think she was a virgin. At the basketball game she and her friend discuss the thing about blind girls being better at sex. Emma mentions being able to "visualize" whatever she wants, presumably during sex. She doesn't seem to shy or timid about it. I got the impression that she was talking from experience.

Being "messed up" like that doesn't necessarily mean she wouldn't have sex - it sometimes has the completely opposite effect. Or no effect at all.

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[–] mrkpnkrs 15 years ago

She's absolutely no virgin, quite the opposite actually. There are numerous references to her experience with many men.

[–] jinx-37 15 years ago

No, she wasn't a virgin. When she and her friend, Candice, went to the basketball game, she gave her advice on the whole "blind girl" mystic that Candice commented on. How, when she was with a man, she could draw him into whatever her fantasy happened to be because she couldn't see him. Her first time with Hallstrom was her first time where she could see her lover.

I think her clinging to Hallstrom had more to do with the fact that she met him during a very traumatic period in her life: first time seeing in almost 30 years and trying to readjust her mind and life to that fact and then seeing the person who murdered her neighbor, seeing her dog hit by a car, and being the target of the murderer. Can't really blame her for wanting to focus on the ONE good thing that was happening in her life right then.

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