The Glass Castle Is As Bad As 50 Shades Of Grey
I refuse to use bad language in this blog, but The Glass Castle is pretty much worthy of all the bad words that are out there.
It takes a story of abuse, neglect, children watching their parents beat up eat other and then start to have sex, a grandmother trying to rape her grandson, a father purposely almost killing his daughter on multiple occasions, and turns it all... ROMANTIC?
I kept on watching the film, because I had to see that the girl turned out okay. Because I had to see that justice was served (OR AT LEAST THAT THE TRUTH OF ABUSE AND A HEALTHY RESPONSE TO IT WERE ACKNOWLEDGED) ... None of this happened!
So in the end the moral of the story is... if a family member or anyone else abuses you through neglect, physical, mental, emotional, and/or sexual means the proper response is to... laugh it off and remember the sentimental moments when they were kind of sort of a little endearing.
I recently heard a headline story about how a man attacked his wife with a chainsaw in front of his three children. What I saw in this film didn't seem different. The father grabs his wife and dangles her out the upstairs window violently in front of his children.
He yells at his daughters for saving their brother from being raped by their grandmother.
I mean, guys... I don't care how much trauma is guy has been through, DON'T ROMANTICIZE HIM!
I sometimes wonder how the world came to the point of romanticizing a film like this that IN ITSELF is a sort of abuse (because it sends the emotionally abusive message "shrug it off" / "it's not so bad" / "accept it") to people.
Forgiveness is one thing, but inviting the abuser back into your life and then talking about how they made life "fun" ... that's just INCREDIBLY inappropriate and immature. It shows a lack of self-respect among other things. It's SICKENING.
For a better understanding of what the makers of this film did, look up words like gaslighting.
It takes a story of abuse, neglect, children watching their parents beat up eat other and then start to have sex, a grandmother trying to rape her grandson, a father purposely almost killing his daughter on multiple occasions, and turns it all... ROMANTIC?
This reminds me of the Fifty Shades of Grey / BDSM concept. Utterly similar.
I kept on watching the film, because I had to see that the girl turned out okay. Because I had to see that justice was served (OR AT LEAST THAT THE TRUTH OF ABUSE AND A HEALTHY RESPONSE TO IT WERE ACKNOWLEDGED) ... None of this happened!
So in the end the moral of the story is... if a family member or anyone else abuses you through neglect, physical, mental, emotional, and/or sexual means the proper response is to... laugh it off and remember the sentimental moments when they were kind of sort of a little endearing.
I recently heard a headline story about how a man attacked his wife with a chainsaw in front of his three children. What I saw in this film didn't seem different. The father grabs his wife and dangles her out the upstairs window violently in front of his children.
He yells at his daughters for saving their brother from being raped by their grandmother.
I mean, guys... I don't care how much trauma is guy has been through, DON'T ROMANTICIZE HIM!
I sometimes wonder how the world came to the point of romanticizing a film like this that IN ITSELF is a sort of abuse (because it sends the emotionally abusive message "shrug it off" / "it's not so bad" / "accept it") to people.
Forgiveness is one thing, but inviting the abuser back into your life and then talking about how they made life "fun" ... that's just INCREDIBLY inappropriate and immature. It shows a lack of self-respect among other things. It's SICKENING.
For a better understanding of what the makers of this film did, look up words like gaslighting.
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