I hope she had an abortion because I can't see her being a good mother. What a loathsome woman. She seemed a few shades away from turning into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. I'm really against violence towards women, but sometimes there are movie or TV characters that I just really want to strangle and Lydia was one of them.
shareYeah she was pretty nasty. That whole set-up she did at the end with the fake interview was very conniving. I'm guessing that the pregnancy tied her to Helen's boyfriend much to his chagrin.
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I don't think Lydia would have taken him back either. She just didn't want him being able to walk away scott free. I think it's possible she was pregnant and wanted to upset the balance of his life the way hers was upset. She wanted to hurt him and Helen too because he chose her.
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Plus a peed on pregnancy test . . . ;-)
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I would assume she just had the abortion and moved on. When she talks to Helen she mentions decididng if she's going to keep Helen's boyfriends baby or not and I'm guessing him chasing after her when she ran away made her make the decision not to keep it.
I think the character was written ambivalantly enough that an actress could make her situation more sympathetic. I'm guessing there was a decision to play her hard so that the audience isn't overwhelmed. Plus it's fun to dislike people, especially in this genre.
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Both Lydia and Helen were being jerked around by Gerry, only it was Lydia who took matters into her own hands and forced a resolution. Gerry was the ass here.
shareI guess it was innocent on Lydia's part to carry on an affair with a man in the apartment he was sharing with his girlfriend, to cruelly toy with Helen, and then to drop the pregnancy bombshell on her in matter-of-fact tone as Helen was being simultaneously hit with the affair bombshell?
Neither Gerry or Lydia were innocent.
You know, I thought Lydia might move on from Gerry, too, but a friend of mine who saw the movie with me (and who has worked in the psych field) had a different take on it. She felt that Lydia's big rant to Gerry about being stuck at the metaphorical station waiting for him was just manipulation and part of her game to get him to leave Helen. This is backed up by her later outing Gerry to Helen and thus ridding herself of her rival, as she saw it.
The irony is that Gerry is probably just going to find another Helen, hook up with her, and continue to have Lydia as his side dish. And Lydia will probably put up with it because she's too narcissistic (and addicted to the drama of it all) to admit she's not the one in charge. She may even stay with him because she prefers to be the Other Woman. For all her screaming and theatrics, Lydia is pretty weak and pathetic.
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So you believe murdering an innocent human being is the answer? While this was a movie, so many think abortion/murder of another human being, another body, one who deserves to live is the answer. I guess when Nazis finally were desensitized and killed Jews, gypsies, gays, etc. it was ok, because if they don't serve your purpose, murder them. Check out www.180movie.com where this is discussed.
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Did you go to medical school, Nobody? You seem to know so much! *sarcasm implied*
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