mortensorchid Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Last weekend, I saw the movie Fatal Attraction which I had not seen in many years. Funny how it was made 25-30 years ago and it's still being talked about! It made me think quite a bit, it was complicated as well as simple. And how we have all changed since then. For those of you who have not seen this classic, to be brief - Michael Douglas is married to a wonderful woman has a young daughter with her. When his wife and daughter are away for a long weekend, he has a fling with a book editor Glenn Close who he met at a business meeting. She falls head over pumps in love with him, wants to play a central role in his life, and starts making all these one sided desires. It just so happens that she is terribly unstable and will not give up. Women in the audiences were silently cheering for her when she says "I will not be ignored!", and the men were shaking in their shoes and chanting "Kill the bitch!" in theaters. It stirred up a lot of emotions. How do you feel about this? I know it's a movie, but I was just wondering what everyone's take on it was/is.
Jane2011 Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 haha...I think it's cool that you're re-discovering this movie and talking about it as if it's so fresh and new It's one of my favorite movies, and no kidding, I've seen it at least twenty or twenty-five times since it first came out in 1987. Love it. I've never acted remotely like Glenn Close's character when jilted by a lover. I do obsess like nobody's business, and stay hung up to the point of complete patheticness, but I keep it all to myself. I have way too much pride to let a guy who rejected me see me THAT hung up and desiring of him. Yet, for the movies, I cheer 'Alex' (G. Close's character) on. I mean, it's the movies. We can cheer on the 'villains', so to speak, when they're being badass and not letting people f*ck with them. I thinks she was dumb, of course, thinking a weekend of sex is going to make a married man leave his wife. I also think, now that I'm older, that it's a bit unrealistic that a 36 year old woman would fall that head over heels for a guy based on two nights of sex, even if he is attractive (and Mike D's character definitely was). She's portrayed as a pretty attractive, if not beautiful, woman in her 30s, presumably someone who's had sex and been around the block. A woman in her 30s, at least I would think, wouldn't get that crazy about a guy. Disappointed, sure, but lose all control of herself? Seems unlikely. Yet...I'm probably wrong because people of all ages get crazy-obsessed. I love the movie, though; it's excellent!
nessaaa Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 There was a remake of this movie a couple years ago. I think it's the guys fault, they play with a girls head and think they can get away with it and go back to their life like nothing ever happened. I agree with her... **** his whole life up. Why should he get away with cheating and getting pussy on the side.
xxoo Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 When I was taking abnormal psych in college, this Glenn Close's character was cited as a good example of borderline personality disorder.
curlygirl40 Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 One of my favorites. To this day, my friends and I call stalkers 'bunny boilers' Even though it was a crappy thing for the Mike Douglas character to do, her reaction was over the top. Screams of mental illness to me. Made for a great movie though.
KatZee Posted September 6, 2012 Posted September 6, 2012 Well I mean, it's a classic movie of "man gets bored with adult life, has a fling." She knew he was married, she knew she was the other woman, it's her fault for being an idiot and thinking he'd leave his wife and young daughter for her. Guys do this. They use women as long as they allow them to. He made no promises to her at all. It was her fault for sticking around as long as she did. Glenn Close was just a psycho though. Unstable from the get-go. She was living a fantasy in her own mind, and acted out accordingly. Yes, kill the bitch. And I'm a woman.
Author mortensorchid Posted September 8, 2012 Author Posted September 8, 2012 I felt pity yet anger at Michael Douglas. Because you simply do not know how crazy people can or cannot be. She knew he was married the whole time, it's not like he lied to her. But, we all make mistakes in life (and I'm not just talking about sex either). Maybe you overate, maybe you drank or smoked something you shouldn't have, maybe you were angry and said something hurtful to someone else. We've all done it. Still, you do not know how crazy others are. You could walk by someone and never say a word to them and they could be complete sociopaths and you'd never know it. So the message is to be cautious.
Woggle Posted September 8, 2012 Posted September 8, 2012 I don't feel an other woman can claim victim when they go after a married man because they know the score. That being said cheaters deserve to have a psycho stalk them like this. In a perfect world his wife would have left and him and he would be stuck with the crazy lady.
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