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Excellent Allegory about different kinds of abusive relationship

posted 4 years ago by mr159 (136)
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Plot holes aside, this movie did a great job of capturing the pain of being in an abusive relationship.
1. She feels paranoid all the time. Even after she ended the relationship, she feels he's watching her (in this case literally)
2. He isolates her from her sister with that email. A lot of abusive partners isolate their SO from their family and close ones.
3. Her friends (the cop mainly) start to think she's the crazy ones. A lot of abusers are charming to the outside world and make the victim look bad.

[–] GordonGartrelle (1267) 4 years ago

I get what you are saying........

but pretty sure, her sister didn't know anything of the abuse.

Why would she isolate from her sister after the ex died?

Of course everyone thought she was nuts. Movie aside, in the real world, if your sibling said my ex is invisible and is harassing me, what would your first thought be?

[–] JuleenAnn (23) 4 years ago

I think the sister did know something abt the abuse, bc Cecelia began to tell her when they were sitting at the table shortly after they learned of Adrian's "death".

[–] JuleenAnn (23) 4 years ago

I found this aspect the most disturbing thing in the whole movie, knowing that this is a common dynamic, and that it is not that difficult to do. I'm a therapist and see sociopaths manipulate groups of ppl all the time. All they need to do is to start to trigger their target and then use their reactions against them. And when someone is in a abusive relationship, they are pretty much ALWAYS triggered. Meaning their responses become reactivity that begins to make them more and more vulnerable, until there is nothing they can say or do to be believed anymore. It is horrifying to see this happening in the real world.