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Shirley

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Shirley	comment	Shirley is a 2020 American biographical drama-cum-psychological thriller film, directed by Josephine Decker (Madeline's Madeline) and adapted by screenwriter Sarah Gubbins from the 2014 novel of the same name by Susan Scarf Merrell. It premiered at Sundance before being picked up by Hulu for wide distribution later in the year.In 1949–50 Vermont, author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her husband Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg) take in a young couple, Rose (Odessa Young) and her aspiring academic husband Fred (Logan Lerman). As Shirley works on her new novel – which will become Hangsaman (1951) – she draws her inspiration from the real-life disappearance of a student at the University of Bennington... and her growing attraction to Rose.For the unrelated 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë, see here.
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Shirley / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Shirley / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Rose knows Stanley cheated on Shirley a lot, but she frames him for possibly cheating with the missing girl, Paula. Shirley, however, sees through this in a second.
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Shirley / int_242f638e	type	Pastiche
Shirley / int_242f638e	comment	Pastiche: Of Shirley Jackson's own novels, with a lot of The Yellow Wallpaper in there. Two women are trapped in a house together like We Have Always Lived in the Castle. There's a lot of focus on cramped, interior spaces, similar to The Haunting of Hill House, as well as a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship that develops between Shirley and Rose, Rose is nearly Driven to Suicide on one of the rare scenes outside, and Shirley is portrayed as very agoraphobic. Meanwhile, Shirley convinces Rose to investigate the real-life disappearance that inspired Hangsaman (which she is also shown writing), and there are repeated scenes of Shirley dreaming that she is a witch and imagining various other religious rituals, which were also a major influence on The Lottery and several of Jackson's short stories. A recurring motif in several of Jackson's short stories (as well as a major scene in Hangsaman) is a moment in which the heroine stands on a bridge, contemplates jumping, but ultimately steps away. In the film, the bridge is a cliff, but the scene plays out in much the same way.
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Shirley / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Shirley / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Shirley reveals not only that Fred was cheating on Rose, but that he's probably been doing so since the beginning of the year.
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Shirley / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Shirley / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: As in real life, both Stanley and Shirley are writers, as is Fred.
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Shirley / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Shirley / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "There is no such thing as the Shakespeare Society." Confirming that Fred has been cheating on Rose for months, if not since the opening, and Shirley knew all along.
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Shirley / int_4f6f9528	type	Actor IS the Title Character
Shirley / int_4f6f9528	comment	Actor IS the Title Character: Elisabeth Moss IS Shirley.
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Shirley / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Shirley / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Considering that she's married to a man, Shirley might be a Depraved Bisexual, but all her fantasies in the film are about women and she is portrayed as so mentally unwell that it isn't clear whether she's ever going to be coercive in real life towards Rose.
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Shirley / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Shirley / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: How Shirley and Stanley target Fred and Rose, to devastating effect.
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Shirley / int_9c495599	type	Hide Your Children
Shirley / int_9c495599	comment	Hide Your Children: Shirley and Stanley had children by the time this film was set, but they are never shown onscreen. After Rose gives birth around three-quarters of the way through the film, unless she's carrying her child around (as she is in the climax), her baby will be somewhere but not commented on by anyone.
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Shirley / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Shirley / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A lot of what Stanley does to Rose, especially kissing her, falls under sexual harassment and probably sexual assault. However, this film is set in the late 1940s, so Rose says nothing. The amount of drinking and smoking—including by/around a pregnant woman, and, later, around a newborn—was standard for the 1940s (although in real life, Stanley and Shirley were known to be prodigious smokers and drinkers even by 1940s standards).
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Shirley / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Shirley / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The book that Shirley writes. Stanley calls it "brilliant", but she's left emotionally distraught by it.
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Shirley / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Shirley / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Shirley has one in the final scene while Stanley is commenting on her book. Rose has a nearly identical one in the backseat as she and Fred drive away, implying she's turned into a version of Shirley.
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Shirley / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Shirley / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Shirley. Although she is married to a man (Stanley), they are shown to be desperately unhappy, never have sex, and never even show any physical interest in each other. While she is upset by Stanley's other lovers, it's implied that she feels humiliated more than anything, and she repeatedly describes her love for and interest in other women, while also becoming obsessed with, and having romantic fantasises about, Rose.
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Shirley / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Shirley / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: It's never answered what's going to happen to Fred and Rose's marriage, only that Shirley and Stanley are still together (which is a Foregone Conclusion). Will they get divorced? Will Rose resign herself to living like Shirley?
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Shirley / int_f0515dae	type	Sidelong Glance Biopic
Shirley / int_f0515dae	comment	Sidelong Glance Biopic: A biopic of Shirley Jackson — told from the perspective of a newlywed woman who comes to stay with Shirley and her husband Stanley for a year while her husband is working with Stanley at the college.
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