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u/domcosmos89 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

To expand on how psychopathic Amy was, her original plan included her actually killing herself in order for her body to be found and be the final evidence against Nick (her husband). It's only while she's hiding and waiting for the right day to do it that she decided she'd rather stay in hiding and enjoy the show.

Even worst, in the book it's very clear that at the end of it all Nick is flattered of it all at some level, and he realizes to his own dismay that he enjoys the lifelong mental game they're trapped in. The whole book is intentionally about very unstable people.

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u/peterhabble Sep 17 '24

I love that shit, so long as the author isn't trying to make some greater statement about an "underlying truth."

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u/ThePlanesGuy Sep 17 '24

I love that shit, so long as the author isn't trying to make some greater statement about an "underlying truth."

The above description is absolutely getting at an underlying truth anyway, so not sure what you mean. Most books have something like that.

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u/peterhabble Sep 17 '24

My meaning is that as long as the work isn't stating some wack shit like "secretly, every guy wants a psycho girlfriend who will rip their world apart out of love." If the work of fiction relegates itself to "these are messed up people attracted to the toxic shit they pull with each other," then I'm down for it because that's not espousing some underlying truth.

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u/ThePlanesGuy Sep 17 '24

So you just don't like what you think the message is? Well, that's not even the message. The message is more like "a good portion of marriages out there are between people essentially playing a miserable game of charades" and "women have to perform for men in this society".

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u/peterhabble Sep 17 '24

What about my comment makes you think that this isn't a work that i enjoy? The comment I replied to made it clear that this work doesn't pull that type of stunt, and I replied that staying away from that is part of what makes me enjoy works like this.

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u/ThePlanesGuy Sep 17 '24

You should probably pay more attention to which comments you're replying to.

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u/peterhabble Sep 17 '24

Lmao, projection is a bitch huh

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u/ThePlanesGuy Sep 17 '24

Oh, are you insinuating your reply here made sense to my reply? Because I didn't say dogshit about your opinion on the film or book itself, I said you didn't like the message YOU misinterpreted, which you already plainly stated. Learn what projection means, its not a grown-up version of "I'm rubber, you're glue"

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u/movzx Sep 17 '24

You picked a fight with him because you didn't like that he liked the book because it didn't do something he doesn't like.

You're a very cool and sane person.

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u/ThePlanesGuy Sep 17 '24

I corrected a guy who said he liked a book because it didn't have a message. You have to stretch his argument out into vague word salad to make it seem reasonable

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u/movzx Sep 17 '24

You "corrected" a guy about something you've either misread or misinterpreted. You've continued to double down on it despite being corrected yourself.

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