I know she's supposed to be the victim and I'm supposed to feel sorry for her. I am just not liking her and I feel bad for the blond chick not her.
Phoebe: Wait a minute, you just said something.
Paige: I did? Was it smart?
So far the mom is pissing me off b/c she's not suspicious even slightly.
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Elizabeth ticked me off when she started saying "I can't give you up..."
She was almost as obsessed with Mark as he was with her!
I agree, Elizabeth's mother was a total doofball for the first quarter of the film!
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
I am just not liking her and I feel bad for the blond chick not her.
I didn't like her either. She was self-centered and stupid. We're suppossed to believe that is due to her age? I don't think so because isn't Kelly the same age and Kelly was sensible. Elizabeth was just too dumb to be likable.
shareYeah, she wasn't a sympathetic character, in my opinion. Of course, the abuse was something nobody deserves.
She "knew" that she was much better than her cousin in every body's eyes, and even in the hospital when she had been hit the first time, she adopted this attitude of, "Don't you dare think that I, the golden one, screwed up."
I blame the parents. When the family dynamic is such that one child in a close knit extended family is held on a pedestal, it sets her up to not be as ready to come forward with problems, so not to lose their status/role in the family.
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I have empathy for both characters. Elizabeth's character is just bit naive who just experiencing first love and so caught of and overwhelmed by it that just doesn't quite understand that first love isn't always enough, that there is a difference between a healthy love and and toxic kind of love built on control, possessiveness and clinginess, she was kind of clingy of him too. Remember the scene she says if you love somebody it doesn't matter what they do you just forgive them. Of course in reality sometimes it does matter, and forgiving isn't the same as forgetting nor mean you should remain the person. I liked Kelli's character too even though at first I thought she was bratty to her mother, she also didn't seem to have self respect either willing to give a blow job to a guy who wasn't even her boyfriend because he asked and she seemed to have truust issues with males. I'm glad both girls overcame the problems the had in the end.
shareKellie was sort of the skapegoat, but she was def. more of a likable character. She was just kinda misunderstood. I just thought the girl playing Lizzie was a really bad actress so it was hard to like her. She was very bland & she dressed like a teenage stepford wife.
I went under and you followed; let's not think about tomorrow.
I slightly disagree both characters were flawed but good. Kelli was the more gutsy wild child rebellous type with an attitude, while Elizabeth was the "good girl" golden child yet more naive. I don't get the dressing like a teenage stepford wife, she dressed perfectly okay to me. I just had a problem with the way she allowed Mark to control what she wore in that one scene.
shareI think you dislike her because the fact that her boyfriend's rotten and her cousin's trying to help is obvious to everyone BUT her. Once she came into her own, though, she was awesome.
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