Are you the female patient Rich is looking for?

Margot 2022-03-24 09:03:04

I have no sympathy for women who have suffered domestic violence. Even though the scars on their bodies are real and visible, they do their best to cry out to people about their inhuman torture, as if they were innocent and unfortunate. I just wanted to ask: what did you do when he first hit you?

Afraid, crying, angry, and then accepting the other party's acting-like self-blame and apology, moved by his line-like confession of love, and then reunited as before, with more affection. There is no doubt that there will be a second violence, a second apology, a second forgiveness, and a deformed relationship model will be established, followed by endless reincarnation.

Without the cooperation of the other hand, no sound can be heard, and without the cooperation of the other person, a mode of getting along cannot be established, and interaction will form a relationship. .

"Tie Me, Tie Me" is a work by Almodovar in 1990. Richie, who has been living in an orphanage since he was three years old, has been trapped in mental hospitals and nursing homes for more than 20 years, and he is very open to the outside world. Know nothing. At the age of 23, he was approved by a doctor to return to society. After walking out of the gate of the mental hospital, Richie immediately showed his love to Maria, the pornographic actress he had always loved. Days to have real feelings for him and to love him "as he loves her". Maria went from fear, resistance, and crying to acceptance, cooperation, and obedience, and she really fell in love with Richie. After her sister helped her successfully escape from captivity, she felt that she could not leave him, and her sister also thought that this love was wonderful, two people Together they went to Richie, and at the end of the film, the three of them were happily sitting in the car and heading for a new life.

In fact, people with violent tendencies are all patients, but they have never been in a mental hospital like Richie. Come to listen to Richie's love confession:

I kidnapped you to give you a chance to know me, because I'm sure you will fall in love with me as I have fallen in love with you.
I am alone in this world, and I would like to be a good husband to you and a good father to your children.
Does anyone else love you as much as I do?
You remind me of how my parents looked when they took care of each other.
...

If a woman hears this kind of confession, she will feel, wow, so touched! So congratulations, you are just another female patient the Richies were looking for. They beat you and tied you, and you were hurt and scared, but they would say that it was because they loved you too much and couldn’t control themselves. Please believe that this is the last time they will do it again, and they will never do it again, even kneeling down and self-harming to show sincerity. If you still can't see that this is a sick person's behavior, and forgive them, love them even more, regard yourself as their savior, and want to save this man who can't live without you, then again for sure Then you are the female patient (not his female doctor, it's useless to be self-righteous), and together with them, you have established a morbid "violence-harmony" cycle.

Almodovar did not express the gloom and depression of this subject matter, on the contrary, it was relaxed and comical, which is the ability of the master.

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! quotes

  • Ricky: Will you run away if I don't tie you up?

    Marina Osorio: I don't know. You'd better tie me up. Tie me up.

  • Lola: You're crazy! How can you love a kidnapper who ties you up? You think that's normal? You must be in shock. You can't be that kinky!