A few things that made it hard for me to sympathise with Meg.

I believe Meg's 16 years old based on Slyvia Lykens's age

Read The Basement by Kate Millett. The girl modelled after Sylvia in this movie appeared to me to simply want friendship and rescue, probably much like the real Sylvia. True to the culture of the time, a male of, say, fourteen had more (social) value and "say-so" than a girl of fifteen/sixteen. I think her somewhat flirtatious overtures are not unreasonable.

As for her clothes, it was a different time; no decent person would look at a child baring their legs to be "sexy", and once a girl got close enough to womanhood to where it might be inappropriate, their parents would step in and replace the shorts with a more appropriate skirt or pedal-pushers, etc... In real life, Sylvia's parents were 1) gone; 2) carnival workers iirc; 3) very poor. If the real Gertrude had thought the real Sylvia's dress immodest, it was probably because Sylvia had absentee parents and no appropriate clothes.

Megan was around 16 and David maybe 13. Both of them were minors. If that and the fact that her clothes were provocative make it so hard to sympathise with a torture victim, you gotta have a visit to the shrink.

If you think that wearing provocative clothing and being flirtatious, make a torture victim less deserving of sympathy, then you are one sick person. But I'm pretty sure your being a troll.

I never got the impression she was flirting with the boys. I think she was supposed to be portrayed as friendly, which she most likely was in real-life having come from carnival parents, carnies usually are very friendly down-to-earth people.

And being that this is a movie and probably no way to be exactly sure what Sylvia did wear at that time, I would say the clothing Meg wore was probably nothing like what Sylvia wore at the time as how are they to truly know? Its not as if what she wore would have ever been documented.

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I blame her as a victim because she responded so poorly despite being nearly an adult.

She should have convinced David to send help. If necessary, either have sex with him or promise to do so as an incentive. David was not willing to help her out because the culture of that time did not encourage intervening in other people's affairs. She should have tipped the balance with an incentive.

She should not have gone back for her sister. It is stupid. If she got free, the cops would have helped them. If she didn't, they are both screwed.

I think it is quite fair to blame her because of her maturity and the fact that she had plenty of time to plan and think since she was held captive for so long. It wasn't as if it was a split-second decision.

You don't think what happened to Meg was OK. BUT since she wore shorts and was good friends with a boy, it's pretty suspicious. And hanging her from the ceiling, punching her, raping her and burning her clit off well, that comes with the territory of being so promiscuous. Imagine if she ever had sex! What would she have deserved?


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I really can't tell if you're just a troll or you really mean what you say.