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Paul Was Not the Only One in 'Hell'

posted 15 years ago by LadyMargaret
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Although this movie seemed to focus on the living hell Paul experienced in his jealous paranoia, I submit that Nelly endures her own hell of love lost watching Paul turn into this jealous idiot that she can no longer trust and now realizes that she must leave him to have any semblance of a normal life again when she had been devoted to him completely.

It also shows how domestic emotional and physical abuse can start in a marriage.
It also shows how a woman's love for a man can make her a victim of domestic abuse. I thought the scene in the doctor's office was absurd and very unrealistic in our day an age. No wife after being sexually assaulted by her husband would be counseled in this day and age to go back home with him. A restraining order would be placed on the husband.

[–] CathyE 14 years ago

Although this movie seemed to focus on the living hell Paul experienced in his jealous paranoia, I submit that Nelly endures her own hell of love lost watching Paul turn into this jealous idiot that she can no longer trust and now realizes that she must leave him to have any semblance of a normal life again when she had been devoted to him completely.

I thought that was pretty obvious. They are both in hell.

I thought the scene in the doctor's office was absurd and very unrealistic in our day an age. No wife after being sexually assaulted by her husband would be counseled in this day and age to go back home with him.

I thought that was a bit far fetched as well. Surely the doctor should have known something terrible could happen. Why couldn't they go to the hospital right away? But then we wouldn't have our ending... I understand they needed it to happen that way for the story, but they could have put in more effort to have it make more sense.

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[–] Charlot47 11 years ago

I thought the scene in the doctor's office was absurd and very unrealistic in our day an age. No wife after being sexually assaulted by her husband would be counseled in this day and age to go back home with him.

Aren’t we in a world of nightmare by the time the story gets to the doctor’s surgery, not in some pat scenario of "our day and age”*? Just when the couple are in front of the man who could save them, he sends them home. He can’t get a place in a clinic for Paul until next morning and the two have got a hotel to run as well as a kid to look after. Short of asking the cops to lock him up for the night, would it have been possible to separate Paul from Nelly?

* Our day and age does include places with slightly differing attitudes to marital relations, like Saudi Arabia for instance. Even rural southern France might surprise you.

[–] frankey200 8 years ago

Aren’t we in a world of nightmare by the time the story gets to the doctor’s surgery, not in some pat scenario of "our day and age”*?

Exactly. People are failed by "social services" every day. Even women who are physically abused are sometimes sent home again.