When Richard Gere's character asked her to leave with him?
"I'm just a girl from a trailer park with a dream"
-Hilary Swank
I'm just guessing and psychoanalyzing here but.....they had an "arrangement" I'm guessing strictly a business thing,no emotion, no feelings, total detachment abd she was comfortable with that...and he messed it up by catching feelings. She's damaged emotionally and doesn't know how to handle feelings, emotions or simple human kindness. JMO
I've wondered this ever since I saw this initially. Whatever the reason, it's not explained or even hinted at... which is a minor flaw with the film.
I suppose one could speculate that the prostitute -- who's used to being nothing more than a hole to stick one's penis into -- didn't know how to handle being the object of someone's genuine feelings. However, if this was the case, it's still difficult to understand why she reacted the way she did. If anything, he thought very highly of her and wanted to be a part of her life. Why someone would want to return that favor with hostility doesn't make sense.
More than anything, I think it simply represents a problem with storytelling than the audience's failure to understand it.
I've wondered this ever since I saw this initially. Whatever the reason, it's not explained or even hinted at... which is a minor flaw with the film.
I suppose one could speculate that the prostitute -- who's used to being nothing more than a hole to stick one's penis into -- didn't know how to handle being the object of someone's genuine feelings. However, if this was the case, it's still difficult to understand why she reacted the way she did. If anything, he thought very highly of her and wanted to be a part of her life. Why someone would want to return that favor with hostility doesn't make sense.
More than anything, I think it simply represents a problem with storytelling than the audience's failure to understand it.
Suggesting that they run off together was only a pipe dream that would never really work. She obviously was fond of him (she just gave him a rather expensive watch), but what he was proposing was a fantasy that would only end in disaster if she fell for it.
However, mentioning the possibility of a 'normal life' made her angry because it was a reminder to her of what she could never have and never be.
It was because Gere said "What you are is fine with me". She was insulted by that because he's basically saying "Yeah, you're nothing but a whore, but I'm a loser so I don't care".
It was a backhanded insult from Gere, even if it was totally unintended. Some small part of her wanted to believe he saw something better in her.
"Help me take off this nostalgia mask. For once, let me look upon the PT with my own eyes"
Maybe, he was crowding her. It's one thing for her to appreciate him as a client or even as a human being she spends time with.... it's another when he takes it further and tries to invade the fantasy and be with her in real life.
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Because he said he accepted WHAT she was not WHO she was I.e. a hooker. She like all hookers/strippers have a rescue fantasy where someone pulls Julia Roberts off the street ( Gere's casting is no accident). And the line had a negative connotation subtly. Like saying "I don't care that you're a slut" as opposed to "let me take you you away from this awful life because you're better than this"
It implied he wasn't in love with her but the fantasy of what she was and did.
Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Is it better to be in love or in lust?
You want to play the game, you'd better know the rules, love.
-Harry Callahan
There are some really good comments in this thread. I'm surprised.
shareI guess she was a mirror of Richard Gere's character.
As a cop he just did what he had to do without any personal Investment.
Like him she did what she had to do without feelings.
I think she asked him to leave because she didn't want feelings.
She just made all her costumers feel special so that they come back
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When Richard Gere's character asked her to leave with him?
No two persons ever watch the same movie.share