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I think the psychologist wrote off her attempt at first as ''nonsensical'' and then he looked a little deeper into her home life and realized the toxicity of her parents. There was a real problem there. The girls committed suicide because of oppression, not depression.
Television always provides an escape but this was skewing the line and nearly a slap in the face. Do some reading on what exactly was happening to black people during this time - it was literally a nightmare for them. The crack epidemic, AIDS, huge job losses resulting in homelessness and a completely cut social safety net. There were areas in NYC (and elsewhere) at this time where black people were living in something resembling third world slums.. nothing but rubble and unheated buildings. Crime wasn't just ''bad'' - adult black men were being kidnapped by gang members and held for ransom especially store owners.
I never read the book but the movie is a different entity. You have to take it as that. In this movie it's the story of a shy girl who lives in her Mother's shadow who's taken from her comfortable suburban existence and placed in the world of foster care after her Mom goes to jail. It's a huge drop into a different world. Yes they didn't show much diversity but in the brief scenes she was in the group home you could see she was racially outnumbered being one of the only white's in the facility. She was always an outsider. Pay close attention to the film. She fit in nowhere after she was removed from her nest. It wasn't until towards the end she changed and stood up for herself to her Mother and saw herself as deserving to exist instead of a lost little girl floating around in purgatory.
Wow, some of these answers seem well off the mark. Either that they're basing their theories on the book (which I never read) but watching the film I can come up with a different theory based on the onscreen adaptation. She chose this woman because she knew she would let her be an adult. Astrid was on the cusp of 18 and nearly ready for independence. With Rhina and the other two girls she lived in quasi dorm setting. She got to party, drink and she was left to make her own decisions.
She didn't have a religious busy body down her throat with Christianity and she wasn't locked in a ward or with an emotionally unstable woman. She was finally free to be whoever she wanted and to experiment.
Plus Rhina taught her a few things, one of those things was to let go of the past and the other was to confront her Mother and maybe get some financial help for art college and her future. Rhina was shady but wise.
No, the woman is still gorgeous. She just has self neglect issues like Angelina Jolie.
Emmy Rossum was in this film but should have played an adult Audrey a few years later. Perhaps if this film was made in about 2006 or something.
The movie is frightening with it's pacing and cinematography. I am not religious
I have it in my mind that a younger Jim Carey would have been absolutely perfect for the role. I think he would have made a better Patrick Bateman than Bale. Both in appearance and dramatic/comic ability.
I guess it's a life long battle against alcoholism. Off and on. I hope her daughters never go down the same road as her, circumstances are different but there is a genetic component to alcoholism.
No acting ability at all. The scenes of him going to Iraq in combat were hilarious though. You see pretty boy Efron trying to act like a ''soldier'' and hold a gun. It had me nearly roaring. Such a bland movie overall. Efron was always all good looks and no brains.
No kidding. People have suspected since 2007.
Still such a shame though. Probably one of the best looking men ever.
The backlash comes from the boring-ness in terms of the films pacing and the creatures design. The creature is not scary, it looks like the cat in the hat in a trench coat. Perhaps if they had edited the film better and come up with a more frightening monster than it would have gone over better. The only unsettling scene in the film (spoiler) was the husbands horrific car crash and his head being severed.
LOL Was you sister bald? A baldie with no brain?? AHAHA
She wasn't just ''drunk'' she was messed up on party drugs. She was out of her head when she got into the car and maybe not even able to walk up straight. Shame on her ''friends'' for not intervening and taking her home. Poor thing.
Vacuum cleaners can suck the fetus out too.
More like ''obsessed'' with the worry that women will end up killing them selves in the process of a self induced abortion or from a shady provider. Very sad what happens to women who self abort.
She wanted her daughter to be a machine for ballet. Human urges like sexual desire would have made Nina less ''focused'' in the eyes of her Mother. Notice how Nina was unable to stand up to anyone? not just her Mom but the other girls in her ballet company that were giving her a hard time (kind of the adult version of bullying).
She wasn't just sexually repressed but emotionally repressed. Maybe she would have quit if it wan't for this weird mental state her Mother put her in - like the poster says in this thread her Mother wanted to live through her vicariously. Maybe a ballet career wasn't what Nina really wanted at all. Most of the movie was Nina breaking out of her shell, starting to talk back to other people and advocating for herself (asking for the part). Her sexuality awakened and she defied the mother. Most of the breakdown and her (spoiler) death could be interpreted as a rebirth.
The black girl trying to hang Sabrina in the first season of the show I believe was a political statement.
And too busy working to pay taxes to support “EBT”.