The Act speaks of these two acts: mother Dee Dee makes her daughter Gypsy a patient and serves as her sole caregiver; young man Nick kills his mother Dee Dee, who imprisoned her, in order to save the "princess in the castle". These two actions carry caress and help, attention and rescue on the one hand, and obliteration on the other - the obliteration of oneself, the obliteration of the assignee, the obliteration of third parties who cannot coexist.
Since this kind of behavior is so painful and hurtful, should the giver continue to do it, and the receiver should continue to accept it? Mother Dee Dee has been telling her daughter that the world is dangerous, and only mother will protect you - "There is no other person in the world who can do more than me." She is bound together, not only because she is really worried about the outside world for her daughter, but also because her daughter is her refuge from the outside world - the arrival of her daughter gives her what she yearns for: needs from her daughter, and social support. Sympathy and recognition for her. And that will all go away - if the daughter gets better, she will be healthy, join society, and eventually have a life of her own; society will no longer focus on a family that is no longer tortured. At that time, where will the mother return to? She has decided that society is a dangerous place and that her daughter is her last family. So the desperate mother kidnapped her daughter and made her a sick child who can't walk and have no hair forever; as long as she can't live independently, she will always be the innocent, innocent and lovely daughter of her mother Dee Dee .
The behavior in The Act is a desperate, kidnapping love, a coercion of a desperate person, the content is hostage, binding, restricting freedom, destroying the other party's ability to live independently, and using violence and imposed pain to make the other party give up the escape. attempt. A beautiful pink house, a mother-daughter love that is admired, praised, and appreciated, is too heavy, too righteous, and cannot be doubted, and there is no reason to refuse. Daughter Gypsy cooperates with the performance in the daytime, showing her mother, neighbors and charity groups. At night, it is a bright wig, bright red lipstick, a dream of a prince and a princess, young, free, and do whatever she wants. When she revealed her truth to her true love in the dark, in front of her mother during the day, in the pink house, she could not find a word to be honest with the adult woman she wanted to be and to reject the just "hostage mother's love". She couldn't speak, she couldn't get out of the house, she was gagged by the poverty of words, she was held back by intimidating emotions, crying mothers, sympathetic masses, and contracts that gave her autonomy. When the cheating she planned with her boyfriend also fell through, there was only one thing left to respond: violence—knives stolen from the supermarket. She didn't have the courage to face the lie and confront the kidnapping, so she could only hide in the toilet and let her autistic boyfriend stab her sleeping mother with a knife in silence as the only way of refusal that could solve the predicament silently. She covered her ears and lied to herself that maybe he couldn't do it, and he stabbed four times, piercing his lungs for the last time; her mother was silent after all, and could no longer manipulate her daughter's mind by crying or screaming .
Out of the pink cage, Gypsy finds herself in a dilemma with her mentally retarded boyfriend and dysfunctional family. Before waking up in the trance of denying reality, they were shackled and sent to court separately for trial. It's a prison of truth, no love, just cold bars, and for Gypsy, she's confessed, she's told the truth, she's announced to everyone a horrific case of abuse; her mind is freed and her body is in captivity. , reflect on your past twenty years.
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