Marina: Mentally Ill or just French?

I think she's a little bi-polar. Europeans tends to be somewhat more emotional, but she seems to be all over the place and it's not really explained as to why she's so needy and emotionally all over the place. I get she's been left (who hasn't) and Ben Affleck's character seems to be almost incapable of being the emotional rock she (and then Rachel McAdams character) need ultimately. Are they both just broken birds? Or because they're broken, they chase him away and then she becomes unscrewed and even more emotionally unstable?

Sings a Russian lullaby so I think she is a Russian dancer or model in the movie, and no one doubts Russians are crazy

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Not sure if this is a troll question, but I'll answer it seriously. Being deeply in love with someone can drive you to do crazy and irrational things. When you're in this state of mind you may not realize this. To the Wonder allows the viewer to observe how these emotions affected Marina, and what's cool is how in the context of this film Malick lets her character basically let loose and act out on her emotions where most of us manage to suppress them. She's a manifestation of the ups and downs so many people go through, things that Malick himself has probably gone through, and he uses her character as his vessel to portray the tumultuous feelings that come with being head over heels in love with someone.

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