sunstruck
Super Jewess
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Ok, so I watched this film the other night and there was something about it that bothered me.
At the begining of the film this woman is a cutter. Now when I was volunteering at the youth center we had several seminars (for the councelors and volunteers, not the kids) about cutting. Without getting too clinical about it, it's basically when someone purposefully causes themselves physical pain (often by cutting shallow slices in their skin). The idea is that the external pain is, a distraction from internal pain. Cuts heal, it's a pain that they can deal with, something they can control as opposed to whatever they are suffering mentally and emotionally.
So this character has just gotten out of a psychiatric hospital for her disorder and she goes right back to it. Then she starts working for this man who becomes her "dom". She no longer cuts herself because he told her not to. She is now obsessed with following his orders, with being subjected to his dicipline. She needs it. She purposefully makes mistakes she knows will result in him punnishing her.
He is also obsessed. He can't control his need to dominate her. He can't stop himself.
So at the end of the movie they are a couple. She has proven her love by sitting at his desk (by his order) until he comes and gets her - three days later. She has peed herself, been humiliated in front of everyone she knows. She has gained a little spunk though, pulling herself from her mother's thumb and
willfully ditching her unwanted fiancee.
The end scene is the woman and her dom, now husband living happily in the suburbs. The film leaves you with the idea that the once mousey cutter is now strong and healthy and completely in control of her life. Just another happy couple living in suburbia.
This is the part I have a problem with. She's basically just traded one masochistic behavior for another. She's still relishing in physical pain, whether she's causing it with her own hand or forcing the hand of another (she is in control in the sense that she does things to "make" him punnish her and she doesn't allow him to "free" her from the relationship). She is still in the grips of an obsessive and masochistic behavior that she can't break free of.
In my opinion, the happy ending is nothing of the sort and I was wondering if anyone else who has seen the film, had any thoughts about the ending.
At the begining of the film this woman is a cutter. Now when I was volunteering at the youth center we had several seminars (for the councelors and volunteers, not the kids) about cutting. Without getting too clinical about it, it's basically when someone purposefully causes themselves physical pain (often by cutting shallow slices in their skin). The idea is that the external pain is, a distraction from internal pain. Cuts heal, it's a pain that they can deal with, something they can control as opposed to whatever they are suffering mentally and emotionally.
So this character has just gotten out of a psychiatric hospital for her disorder and she goes right back to it. Then she starts working for this man who becomes her "dom". She no longer cuts herself because he told her not to. She is now obsessed with following his orders, with being subjected to his dicipline. She needs it. She purposefully makes mistakes she knows will result in him punnishing her.
He is also obsessed. He can't control his need to dominate her. He can't stop himself.
So at the end of the movie they are a couple. She has proven her love by sitting at his desk (by his order) until he comes and gets her - three days later. She has peed herself, been humiliated in front of everyone she knows. She has gained a little spunk though, pulling herself from her mother's thumb and
willfully ditching her unwanted fiancee.
The end scene is the woman and her dom, now husband living happily in the suburbs. The film leaves you with the idea that the once mousey cutter is now strong and healthy and completely in control of her life. Just another happy couple living in suburbia.
This is the part I have a problem with. She's basically just traded one masochistic behavior for another. She's still relishing in physical pain, whether she's causing it with her own hand or forcing the hand of another (she is in control in the sense that she does things to "make" him punnish her and she doesn't allow him to "free" her from the relationship). She is still in the grips of an obsessive and masochistic behavior that she can't break free of.
In my opinion, the happy ending is nothing of the sort and I was wondering if anyone else who has seen the film, had any thoughts about the ending.
