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Did anyone else get really emotional from watching this?

posted 9 years ago by TheOutsidersGurliisGold
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I actually really liked this movie, it opened my eyes so much. Like I know abusive relationships exist where women is the abuser, but this movie taught me how long term relationships aren't destined to last if the two people have an unhealthy relationship. I guess I got really emotional with this film particularly because it made me think of my boyfriend and me. He is basically my first serious relationship and we've only been together for 8 months almost, but I was just thinking throughout the run of the movie "I hope this doesn't happen to me and my boyfriend." The scenes that really touched me the most was the opening scene where they're having passionate sex, and we see like a glimpse of their relationship before all this mess started happening. And then the scene where Dan cheated on Mel with Amanda pissed me off so much it broke my heart. I know Mel was abusive, but God, what he did was so wrong too because he didn't even break up with Mel or anything, but went straight to call up Amanda for sex. I couldn't stand Amanda's character either. She explicitly states she doesn't wanna be a homewrecker but she still sleeps with Dan and then just stays absolutely quiet when Mel walks in on them. It surprised me that Mel didn't say anything to her. Lastly, one thing that got me thinking, was anyone wondering if Mel was always abusive or did her abusive nature start when Dan started being dishonest with her? Her drinking seemed to spark it partly as we see at the beginning of the movie.

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[–] flowerchild-15037 7 years ago

I know you wrote this a while ago but I'm actually scared to watch the movie for the plot...

Not saying the relationship in this movie is anything like my current relationship (thank God) but yeah, I feel like this movie would make me pretty emotional. I love my boyfriend. We're still both madly in love with each other. We have been together for 3 years now and I'm just afraid of bad things happening after a certain amount of time together. I understand this is only a movie but it looks too real for me.

[–] soccertrainy101 7 years ago

It's insanely real. I thought someone had been following my life and made a movie out of it lol.

But in all seriousness, those sort of issues don't pop up out of nowhere. Disfunction has a starting point and if you don't see it in your relationship, you're probably fine. Mel and Dan chose to look past everything that was wrong because being together was safe and easy even when it was impossibly difficult and even dangerous. It was all they knew.

We don't see the beginning of their turmoil, which makes it look like their issues just appeared all of a sudden, but there are always signs and red flags.