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This 2002 thriller, directed by Michael Apted, is basically a Lifetime Movie of the Week, on the big-screen, turned Up to Eleven.Stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, a woman who leaves her evil husband behind. However, he turns out to be rather determined to bring her back, so she might have to fight back... | |
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All Men Are Perverts | |
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All Men Are Perverts: The reason this whole mess started? Mitch made a bet about whether or not he would be able to get into Slim's pants. | |
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Instant Expert: Slim picks up Krav Maga with ridiculous ease. Sure, it is easy to learn quickly, but you don't get that good after one lesson. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: In about three minutes you find out the Mitch is an abuser, Slim gets away with her kid, that a country-wide chase that wouldn't look out of place in The Fugitive ensues, that Slim starts to get all Batman (including disguises), and that she will at some point get so fed up that she takes martial arts lessons and gets in an all-out brawl with Mitch with the objective of killing him... well, "self-defense is not murder", she says, so... it's all right, we guess? | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Once it is made clear that Mitch will only stop once Slim is dead (and he doesn't minds sending her friends to the grave before her), Slim decides to kill him. | |
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I'm a Man; I Can't Help It | |
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I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Mitch's justification for his affairs before he stops feeling that he has to justify his actions to his wife at all, and it becomes a case of 'I'm a man, I can do what I want'. | |
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Revenge Against Men | |
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Revenge Against Men: This should not be shown in a feminist media class, except maybe as an example of how not to write a feminist film. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: Hoo, boy. Even though the movie tries to show Slim as an "empowered" and self-reliant woman, it's men who ultimately help her and Gracie throughout the film (her formerly Disappeared Dad gave her money, her ex-boyfriend hid the two of them in his apartment and even a man physically trains her to fight all the while knowing what her true intentions of meeting up with Mitch are.) | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Slim, when she Took a Level in Badass. Notably, when she takes on Mitch, she wears steel-toecapped boots and heavy rings under her hand wraps to even the odds. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Slim to almost Batman-like levels. Whenever she moves house, she has an exit strategy planned. Before she confronts Mitch at his place in the climax, she moves the furniture around, memorizes the whole house, finds and hides his guns with a metal detector and jams his phone so he cannot call for help or trigger an alarm. | |
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Tired of Running | |
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Tired of Running: After spending most of the movie trying to escape from Mitch, Slim finally gets sick of running from him and fights back. | |
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Threat Backfire | |
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Threat Backfire: Mitch's hired thugs threatens Slim's biological father not to help her out. He immediately provides her with an exorbitant amount of money and a decoy person as to convince Mitch that Slim is somewhere else while she turns his house into a booby trap. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: One of the reasons the movie is widely hated is its use of Domestic Abuse, a very sensitive topic, as a thriller. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: The cops who are clean cannot help Slim in any way (even with copious amount of evidence and multiple witnesses). The ones who are dirty are all friends of Mitch and using their connections as cops to help him track her all over the country and try to strong-arm said witnesses. Averted in that Slim doesn't bother calling them later on. A lawyer she consults with after Mitch goes after her in Michigan calls her out on this, stating that she had two chances to report him, getting his abuses on record, and didn't. He also points out that if Slim misses her court date with Mitch, he can then legally track her down and she'll end up in jail for contempt. Also played straight in that even with Mitch's connections and wealth, his Dirty Cop friend has limits to what he can do without calling attention to himself and isn't seen again after losing Slim in a car chase; implying that Mitch was Gaslighting Slim and relied more on private investigators and hired thugs to handle his dirty work than dirty cops. | |
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Implacable Man | |
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Implacable Man: Mitch literally chases Slim and Gracie across the entire country. | |
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The Dog Shot First | |
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The Dog Shot First: Even though she intends on beating him to death with her bare hands, Slim hesitates and decides not to kill Mitch when she has him at her mercy. But when he attacks her again, he gets fatally thrown out his third-story window. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Slim passes from an innocent housewife into a Lara Croft - like Action Girl. | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
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Dogged Nice Guy: Slim's ex-boyfriend Joe. When she flees for the first time, she goes to his apartment and he doesn't reveal her hiding place despite three men threatening him with a knife. Later, he visits her in Michigan, where they share a bed for one night, and she says he's "really not that bad" (few guys are, compared with Mitch.) After that, Joe disappears until the end credits, when he pops up with Slim and Gracie on a boat. | |
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Straw Misogynist | |
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Straw Misogynist: "What, I'm not allowed to hit you?" Mitch showcases himself as this from the very first second he's on-screen, making a bet with some friends of his that he can approach Slim (who attended them at the diner she was working on) and get in her pants by the end of the day, and he only gets a hell of a lot worse from there. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: When Slim goes to her Disappeared Dad for help, as she has nobody else to turn to. As he Really Gets Around, he's heard this story enough times not to believe it at face value and dismisses her and Gracie. But when thugs working for Mitch show up and threaten him not to help Slim out, he immediately provides her with all the money she needs, because if she wasn't his child, Mitch would have had no reason to try and keep him from helping Slim. | |
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Moral Dissonance | |
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Moral Dissonance: While the movie established that Mitch was a baby-eating monster who if given half the chance would Kick the Dog down the street... Slim premeditated his murder, broke into his house, initiated a fight, and isn't even arrested (the police proved to be thoroughly useless by that point). As the tagline suggests "Self defense isn't murder". Never mind that it sorta stops being self defense when you break into someone's house to beat them to death with your bare hands. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Mitch does not react well to his masculinity being called into question when his wife starts hitting back. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: To be fair, Mitch is showcased throughout the whole movie to be an unrelenting, absurdly evil and absurdly well-connected abusive husband, but as Family-Unfriendly Aesop and Moral Dissonance tell, the climactic fight is not Slim fighting Mitch off, but performing premeditated breaking and entering and murder, which is no different from what Mitch had done at least once during the movie (and also she plants falsified letters and other items that will help with her "self defense" testimony). If the movie was not a high-budget Lifetime Movie of the Week, chances are that Slim would have seen the inside of a jail cell for some time (at least until the investigation cleared her), or ended with a He Who Fights Monsters aesop. Instead, out into the sunset she goes, without an ounce of angst from her, or her kid. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: Because there are ever so many abused women that get into high-speed car chases with their husbands and crooked cops. Self-imposed, in this case, on the Dirty Cop who tries to chase her mid-sized sedan across a condemned bridge and nearly loses his head in his taller SUV when he hits a low support beam. | |
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Melodrama | |
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Melodrama: Pretty much your standard "battered wife" Lifetime drama upgraded to nearly-The Fugitive levels of "action" thriller. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: When she finally fights back, there is a series of flashes from previous scenes of her being abused. What made her pull the killing blow was when she remembered him hurting Gracie for trying to protect her. | |
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Deus Angst Machina | |
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Deus Angst Machina: Mitch is rich enough and well-connected enough to do whatever the hell he wants to Slim and get off scott free. Of course, what he does for a living and what his connections actually are are ridiculously vague. Near the start of the film it's shown Mitch owns some sort of construction company | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Also played straight in that even with Mitch's connections and wealth, his Dirty Cop friend has limits to what he can do without calling attention to himself and isn't seen again after losing Slim in a car chase; implying that Mitch was Gaslighting Slim and relied more on private investigators and hired thugs to handle his dirty work than dirty cops. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Mitch, an abusive misogynistic and adulterous psychopath who spends nearly the whole story trying to track down and kill his wife who escaped his abuse in order to get back their daughter. The resources he can call upon to keep on his Domestic Abuse are almost to super-villain levels since he mainly relies on connections with dirty cops he has leverage on and goons working for his company. | |
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Unskilled, but Strong | |
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Unskilled, but Strong: Mitch, as we discover when Slim confronts him at the end. She knows what she's doing, he just prefers raw power. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: Slim was even told that Mitch was powerful enough to get away with it, and any legal action she takes would just allow him to track her down and kill her. It wasn't exactly the best option but it may have really been her only option. Though for this to work we have to of course accept that Mitch has numerous powerful friends in every division of every police department everywhere, among other things. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Mitch learns this the hard way. By the final confrontation he is taunting her and acting like she's gonna give in if he hits her hard enough, and then he gets hit in the face. | |
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