She fulfills the role of the Ultimate Woman (in the eyes of men of course). The female who had the capacity to both love and destroy Stargher, which is what he most secretly and truely desired. She also has a madonna/whore thing going on. She finds the little boy and provides a maternal caring for him that he never knew. To love someone you have to make yourself completely vulnerable, especially the kind of love a mother has for her child, which is how he is able to trap her and have her under his control through a mind meld or mind enslavement or whatever was going on. Vaughn's character is only able to save her through the remembered emotional pain of losing a younger sibling (she has her own issues going on). Near the end of the movie she becomes some sort of quasi-religious woman warrior symbol of justice to kill him.
The thing I'd like to know is what happened after she is 'lost' in his head and why she doesn't seem to suffer any mental or emotional consequences from this? Because she's a trained psychologist? It's also interesting to me that the only time her character is sexual is when she is 'lost' in Stargher's head. Otherwise she's mainly a compassionate social worker, a loving motherly figure, or a religious warrior.
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