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It’s Hard to Feel THAT Sorry For Her I Would Say.


I’m talking about Jennifer of course. My main nitpick about this is yeah I’m sad to see what happened to her but c’mon she HAD to have been cognizant of what she now was. She couldn’t have been that much of a ditz. Well I dislike the way the movie played it off by her saying “We’ll I’m nearly un killable when I’m fed & I can heal, etc”. Ok then, she’s aware that something happened, and I’m saying she must be aware of what.

She’s slaughtering people, dining on their guts, didn’t the horror of it all hit her in the least? This is what makes her guilty as hell in my opinion. She became a thing, she embraced that thing which kinda makes one believe she was soulless to begin with. Just like she killed that Arab kid right off the jump, just after she herself got attacked & supposedly murdered. That was cold blooded for sure. So does that show you who she was or do you merely blame the demon in her?

In a nutshell this is what I’m asking. How much of it was the demon & how much of it was “her?” You know what i mean? When it comes down to it, I think this is the main argument of the movie.

What was I expecting her to do? Good question I guess. Kill herself? Maybe or at the very least seek out those who had answers to give her, just in case she wasn’t fully aware of her situation. She knew who she would kill & wouldn’t (Needy).

If this film was trying to make you empathize with her, I think they failed.

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Not sure why you think you're supposed to feel sorry for her. She was mean and bitchy before she was possessed, she was mean and bitchy after she was possessed. The only time she is empathetic is when she thinks she's about to be assaulted and is then sacrificed. I imagine we're supposed to think being possessed has made her even less empathetic than she may have been before. She laughs and jokes about the people who died in the fire, she doesn't care about who she kills or their families.

She's meeting the consequences of being a teen girl who thinks she understands the world and can handle themselves around older men who obviously want to prey on her. This whole movie is pretty metaphorical for growing up, sexual assault, and female friendships, so I suppose any empathy you're supposed to feel can be found there.

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