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What did Helen expect?


After a phone call like that? Who did she think would show up? I almost feel bad for Alan, he got jipped.

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I wondered that too, I mean we see her type on the bed pushing weights. Don't know why she expected someone like that to be making those kinds of calls ..

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I think it didn't matter to Helen what he looked like. It was more that she wanted to feel violated, when she found out that he was slowly waiting for her acceptance with his deliberate "move", she knew he wasn't going to give her the rape like experience. That's what she meant by it wasn't working for her. And her justification was just a cliche that she resorted to.

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I agree.

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Yeah i took it that she wanted to be dominated because she knew what a total bitch she was and he was just so passive it would have been more "eeeeeew" instead of
"ooooooooooggh"

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It's because she thought she was going to meet a man to take full control and be really sexual. Instead she got a boring man and it was a turn-off.


Rodents of Unusual Size?...I don't think they exist.

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It's interesting to compare this scene with a certain scene in the recent Dream Scenario movie.

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