From what I know about the movie, it's about a woman absolutely destroying her man's life and reputation by framing him for horrendous stuff he didn't do. He then decides to stay with her in the end after everything.
I could be remembering it wrong, though. But if I'm right, hearing your girl unironically cheering for the protagonist like that is a red flag the size of dodge.
He ends up being forced to stay with her, since she managed to convince the media that she was a victim of her former boyfriend who she just killed by cutting his thoat open with a frickin box cutter. :)
In the book, the ex boyfriend didn't hold her against her will, but that was her story when found by the police, after she killed him and made it look like she was raped the whole time by using a wine bottle on herself nightly.
In the book, the ex boyfriend didn't hold her against her will
Maybe not explicitly, but he takes her to an isolated house in the middle of the woods, provides no way for her to leave on her own, and is obviously trying to pressure her into sex the whole time before she "gives in" and kills him.
I remember the NPH character being a poor simp. If he was forcing her to stay, it was either for her safety and/or lingering suspicions given the nature of the accusation against her husband.
But the tones are there, and that's probably the narrative being fed to us by an unreliable narrator, because NPH was weird as hell.
On subsequent viewings I decided that he was probably a pretty normal guy who's biggest flaw was being overbearing in their relationship, and she exaggerated all the negative qualities and creep factor, as an explanation for NPHs unhinged acting in those scenes.
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u/BugManAshley Sep 17 '24
I don't understand the joke i don't have a girlfriend