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the weird psychiatrist

posted 10 years ago by lakealice
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Near the end ,why did the psychiatrist from the hospital enable Ashley Judd to get away--how would that help her? What about preventing future victims of this serial killer? The psychiatrist was inscrutable in all her scenes. When we first met her, she was being a "Nurse Ratched", shouting at the patients, and then shown to have apparently had great sympathy for one of the most dangerous (Ashley Judd). Had she actually fallen for the "Daddy left me on Christmas" story? As if that made it all forgivable. She deserved to have her license revoked.

[–] Wuchakk 8 years ago

It's an interesting post and you make good points. I'm just offering my two cents: The doctor developed an emotionally potent mother/daughter relationship with Joanna (which can be viewed in the diner scene where she cries when she makes eye contact with Joanna), and she likely developed a similar relationship with many of "her" other girls at the orphanage. She therefore understood why Joanna did what she did and, after all (she reasons), Joanna's only killing men who deserve it. Viewing Joanna as her daughter she had no intention of helping her being apprehended and put away for life, which would be the case since she was guilty of killing several men.

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