So many posters falling over themselves to justify some foolishness. It doesn't matter what his intentions, personal reasons, rationalization was. At all. He chose to take home a woman, unknown to him, who had been brutalized and left unconscious in a back alley. He then listened to her entire life story, her confessions as if he was a compassionate, nonjudgmental friend, and bore witness to her pain and the suffering her choices caused others, while counseling that she change her life. Most importantly, he bore witness to--heard her tell directly and clearly--that she was exhausted and was resolved to change, to end her sexual addiction.
She is tired. With good reason and she wants to sleep after being brutalized and left in an alley, but also from the five hour story of her life where she dredged up everything, trusting him with details she probably had not faced within herself.
THEN, this sad sack that we have all been directed by LVT to trust, decides for reasons I can imagine but give no focks about, to return her room where she is SLEEPING, with his penis in hand, and tries to have sex with her. Wtf? Whatever his reasons, it was selfish, horrid move that betrayed her trust and revealed him in that moment to have been yet another man who thinks he is entitled to be focked. No matter his reasons, HIS desire, the timing was horrific and it made a lie his whole act of pretending to listen and hear her. Even if he wasn't pretending to listen, he made it tragically clear that he did not comprehend when he offered the timeless refrain that sad sacks have made through the ages: "...but why not me, you're slept with _______ men!"
She killed him because she was betrayed, and tired on multiple levels. She had no focks left. And so, she
didn't bother dragging the scene out by listening to his "reasons" for doing the exact opposite of what she said she had decided for herself, so she dressed and got the hell out Dodge.
The ending was a deliberate choice by LVT and while I was saddened that old dude's sexual coming of age was so poorly timed, her shooting his wretched ass made sense to me. It wasn't right but she wasn't wrong either. For me the ending indirectly challenges rape culture, where people are taught to believe that if they desire they are owed or entitled to sex. The fact that the guy could sit and hear all her hard truths, but not hear that she was done, says almost everything. And her shooting him says the rest.
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qrstuvwx
8 years ago
So many posters falling over themselves to justify some foolishness. It doesn't matter what his intentions, personal reasons, rationalization was. At all. He chose to take home a woman, unknown to him, who had been brutalized and left unconscious in a back alley. He then listened to her entire life story, her confessions as if he was a compassionate, nonjudgmental friend, and bore witness to her pain and the suffering her choices caused others, while counseling that she change her life. Most importantly, he bore witness to--heard her tell directly and clearly--that she was exhausted and was resolved to change, to end her sexual addiction.
She is tired. With good reason and she wants to sleep after being brutalized and left in an alley, but also from the five hour story of her life where she dredged up everything, trusting him with details she probably had not faced within herself.
THEN, this sad sack that we have all been directed by LVT to trust, decides for reasons I can imagine but give no focks about, to return her room where she is SLEEPING, with his penis in hand, and tries to have sex with her. Wtf? Whatever his reasons, it was selfish, horrid move that betrayed her trust and revealed him in that moment to have been yet another man who thinks he is entitled to be focked. No matter his reasons, HIS desire, the timing was horrific and it made a lie his whole act of pretending to listen and hear her. Even if he wasn't pretending to listen, he made it tragically clear that he did not comprehend when he offered the timeless refrain that sad sacks have made through the ages: "...but why not me, you're slept with _______ men!"
She killed him because she was betrayed, and tired on multiple levels. She had no focks left. And so, she
didn't bother dragging the scene out by listening to his "reasons" for doing the exact opposite of what she said she had decided for herself, so she dressed and got the hell out Dodge.
The ending was a deliberate choice by LVT and while I was saddened that old dude's sexual coming of age was so poorly timed, her shooting his wretched ass made sense to me. It wasn't right but she wasn't wrong either. For me the ending indirectly challenges rape culture, where people are taught to believe that if they desire they are owed or entitled to sex. The fact that the guy could sit and hear all her hard truths, but not hear that she was done, says almost everything. And her shooting him says the rest.
Spot on. Well said.
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Bronte_Sista
8 years ago
Well said. Why are people shocked by either action? This happens to women/girls all the time. It's called acquaintance rape. Go home with a guy friend/older male relative/older family friend/teacher/boss/coworker/etc, have drinks, fall asleep watching a movie, and wake up with his dick in one of your holes. All that time he was talking to her, building her trust, he's only grooming her. He's asexual, yes, of course, but for LVT to drive home the point that rarely is rape about sex. It's about power.
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