26 mins in, after it's become clear the guy is a nut job, she's sitting with her Mom and says "Mom, what do you think is better, something or nothing, when you can't have everything?"
She's lonely, everyone else is getting married, having children, her mom keeps telling her her dead father is disappointed she's not married. After they meet she says to her mom "he can be really nice.....he can be a little mean at times".
This film keeps the point an extreme one for effect but this issue of accepting imperfect partners is a huge factor in life today, in the easy way we get in and out of relationships. We now have 10+ partners before we get to the point in life where if we're smart we realise that no matter how many times we change partners they're always imperfect, just in different ways, and if we keep chasing perfection we're going to be lonely.
And after watching the film again he doesn't come over quite so bad. The first time it's shocking but the second time he seems to have one fairly consistent paranoid personality disorder that she could learn to ignore. Other times he shows some good traits. Pity he learned sex from porno and practised with hookers but maybe he could unlearn that. I can see how she holds out hope he'll be better than nothing.
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