Yes and no. On the one hand, I always thought she was an airhead girl that had a screwed up life. I still do.
On the other hand, there wasn't a clear cause of what screwed up life. Usually, you have a druggie/alcoholic parents, sexual abuse. Something. But it didn't seem like there was that in her background. Other than, maybe, the absent father and a less than caring mother. But, of course, that could have just been the writing of the movie, that chose to focus on the spectacle of her life instead why it was a spectacle.
That said, it's easy to see how how she got screwed up. Teenage mother, kicked out by her mother needing to support her kid. So she turned to stripping and drugs needed to do it. But what I found surprising is that she had ample opportunity to straighten out her life, but she didn't. And It seemed to me that was probably because she didn't have any kind of support system to help her do it. As you said, she was surrounded by users and abusers and people who didn't care.
Danny maybe could help but he was too young and screwed up by her to be much help.
The most surprising, though, was the old man she married. It has be portrayed that he was practically comatose during their relationship. I was suprisedg that he was very coherent during it.
"I am allowed to think everyone is stupid for 10 minutes."-- Randy Susan Meyers
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shewasasourgirltheday
11 years ago
There was a line at the very end of the movie where Anna is narrating in which she implies that she was sexually abused by her dad. It was something to the effect of, "Sure, I could blame (whoever) for my life, or my father for coming into my room at night." Something like that. I'm sorry, I can't remember the exact words, but that was what I took away from it.
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PatchouliAndPearls
11 years ago
I believe she said something about her father going into other homes, maybe? I can't remember the exact phrasing, but the gist of it to me was that her father played around on her mother and NOT that he abused Anna/Vickie. Her five half-siblings are from him, so that makes perfect sense to me!
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