Her character made me so angry. So angry! Angry to the point where I didn't feel any sympathy for her at all after a while, and was waiting for her husband to finally snap and tell her a few things she needed to hear. I almost cheered when that happened. While some of the things he said to her weren't exactly accurate, or even fair, they still weren't nearly as bad as what she said to him, and she definitely had it coming. She wasn't the only one who lost that child, and she didn't have to deal with the guilt of having 'let go' on top of that. Horrible woman! She and her husband should have been holding each other up, and instead she spent most of the movie tearing him down. She even went a little crazy when another little girl came along, and immediately tried to replace Martha. Well, 'replace' doesn't really fit, but that's the closest word I could come up with. I know different people have different ways of grieving. Some isolate themselves, some cry, some seem to get over it quickly, but I just couldn't stand Susie in the movie. I'm sorry, but I truly hated her.
And her husband forgave her at the end of it. She didn't deserve forgiveness, in my opinion. He went through Hell to find her and to find out what happened to Martha, and he just sat there and took it when she was being awful to him. Some people might argue that her reaction was 'very human', as a friend of mine said when we watched this, but that's neither here nor there. Humans are capable of horrible behavior, and whatever grief this woman was going through, her grief was all she thought about when there was still her grieving husband to consider, and to me this makes her horrible. That man was a saint to stay with her!
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JjHalla9 (3)
a year ago
Do you have children? Are you a Mother? I m 100% sure you re not. You re probably young, not seen or experienced much. When you have, or when you become a Mother, I think you will be very ashamed and embarrassed by your defiant judgement of Susie Carter. I am sure of that.
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