Makes a mockery of abused women and domestic violence

Shut the hell up, if you've never been through it then you dont know what the hell you're talking about so just keep your big mouth shut. when you have a child to protect yeah you kill the bastard before he kills you and her. you do whatever it is you have to do to save that child. its YOU thats slowing down the fight against domestic violence with all your *beep* so do us all a favor and SHUT UP!

If you have not experienced it first-hand, then you could not begin to grasp how women like Slim respond. Slim learning self-defense and getting her revenge symbolizes taking back control, something which she was forced to surrender to her abusive husband. She could do one of two things: Keep running, hiding and letting him win...or do something about it, and get her life back.

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It doesnt matter how many times you "get smacked around" its important to leave asap.

Ive been in a very bad abusive relationship, and it was important for me to hide, for a little while at least.

I read somewhere on this thread, about having your friends or ex bfs kick thier ass. Truth is, youre too terrified. you think they are so strong. you think they are invincible.

And to top it off you are ashamed, humiliated about the whole thing. you dont really tell anyone.

cops cant really do anything... heres a restraining order ... yaaaa... thanks, and what do i do when hes kicking my ass?

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

I disagree. I had a physically and emotionally abusive relationship...not so much myself, it was there in the background. For years, I kept giving him another chance when he pulled all kinds of crap. I wanted the marriage to work so much. But sometimes they are doomed no matter what!

I always told him, if he ever raised a hand to me, I'd have him arrested no matter if he felt provoked or whatever reason he thought he had. No excuses allowed! Eventually, I found out he was going after our daughter. That did it! I had him arrested and he went to the state prison and I divorced him.

Good riddance to bad rubbish I say! Only the last 30 minutes of the movie do it for me. When JLO went on the offensive and starting learning how to protect herself and her daughter, I couldn't help wishing I'd thought of that.

She was good! She taught women everywhere that to stand up for themselves and to take the initiative. She learned from the AA lawyer what her abusive husband was going to do. There would be no help from the law, or escaping him...so, she did what she had to do! It saved the movie as well for me!

First of all, I love this movie. The cops don't arrest her for breaking in because the letters they found say they were meeting to talk, duh. And they don't arrest her for killing him because they had all the evidence there that he had been abusive toward her. They didn't even know she went and had training. Now as to why I love this movie.

I shouldn't watch it, or any others like it, as I was abused by my father and most of my ex-boyfriends for over 20 years. I faced physical, emotional and sexual abuse for over half my life and this movie sometimes brings back memories I just want to fade into the background. I am not stupid, as my college degree and all my awards will show, but from the moment I was born, I knew nothing but violence. When I turned my uncle in for sexually abusing me as a child, I got beaten for doing so. When my sister shot the back door trying to shoot me, I got beaten for running. For many of you that grew up in loving homes, you have no idea what this sort of thing does to you. My only crime was being born a girl. That was all I did. I was born and I was a girl. I did not realize my ex-fiancee was a violent man. We had been together for a long time and he had always seemed so sweet and wonderful, until I got pregnant. By that time, he had isolated me from friends and family and no the cops don't help. By the time I was 6 months pregnant, I had started opening the lines of communication to my mom and stepfather. I was too embarrassed to tell them what had been going on so they had no idea until I showed up at the door one night, covered in bruises and blood. I left him that night and have never looked back and I did it for my child. I would have never done it on my own for myself, as I really didn't believe I deserved any better because it's what I had known my whole life. I didn't want my child growing up like I did, so that was when I left him. My life is so much better now, but the memories still hurt and I break down into tears still frequently. This movie reminds me of what I went through and when she kicks the hell out of him, I root for her. I stand up and get excited and start yelling for her to kick his as*!!! I know it's fiction, but it makes me feel better to see an abuser get exactly what he deserves. My boyfriend doesn't like me watching these movies because of what it does to me, but he loves the ending and wishes it could have been that way for me. He gets excited with me. As stupid as it sounds, it makes me feel better so for all of you that hate on this movie and have never been through it...YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE SO STFU!!! I have been in counseling for over 10 years now trying to get over what happened to me. I am on medication and have PTSD, you name it. I feel like this movie was made for me to make me feel better and to believe in myself and to never, ever let a man treat me that way again. I had my daughter watch this movie after her father beat her. The courts wouldn't LET me keep her away from him as he wasn't a threat to her, blah blah blah. Even after I took her to the hospital to have her treated and filed a police report, the courts still told me I COULD NOT KEEP HIM FROM HER. This movie makes her feel better too. She loves it as much as I do. If you didn't like it, fine, but don't talk about what you don't know about and never had to live through in your whole loving and protected life!!!!

I think its more than obvious that her husband had abused her more than twice off screen, goodness.

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I agree. It made a mockery of the subject by trivializing it and portraying it in an unrealistic light (awesome husband turns psychopath overnight after 5 YEARS of marriage) and then gives a terrible message to women - don't report abuse, don't call the police, run, hide and then return to kill your former spouse. Revolting.







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