Being married to someone (and even being a doctor) doesn't automatically give you the power to have someone locked up in a mental ward at the snap of a finger. If he believed she was cheating on him, that doesn't qualify her as needing mental help. He would have to get her evaluated and such. So how did he manage to get her locked up, without breaking the law somehow?
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I wasn't asking 'why' I was asking 'how' because even though he's a doctor, since he's emotionally involved, I would think that he wouldn't be able to just snap his fingers and she's locked up in a mental ward. "I think my wife is cheating on me so she needs to be locked up for her own mental welfare." Yeah right.
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Well I won't pretend to have any knowledge of real mental institutions, but he had obviously been concerned about her enough before the "affair" to consult with the other doctor, based on their conversation after she showed up to his hospital. The doctor agreed that she seemed off and she had a history, so I'm sure the husband used his connection and her recent behavior to pull strings. That's in the context of the movie at least. I'm sure it's not that simple in reality.
shareIf the movie was set in the late 1800s or early 1900s, then yes, the fact that he had her committed so easily would be entirely believable. This happened to a lot of wives way back then, often just for being "disobedient".
The husband gave me the creepy feeling that he enjoyed it when she acted "crazy" - he enjoyed "curing" her and enjoyed having the upper hand. He loved being seen as the sane one, so he thrived on her "breakdowns".
i'm not sure about that one. but maybe he did like her to rely on him, and kept her caged - mentally speaking.
shareThis was one of my major problems with this movie. The only way that her husband could have had her committed was if she had first gone through an evaluation by a psychiatrist and that two second meet and greet she had with the doctor at her husband's office does not count in the slightest.
Second, she would have had to have shown that she was a danger to herself or others and that she was unable to make her own decisions so that the husband could become her legal advocate/guardian. Being mentally ill does not automatically waive your rights no matter who you're married to. Unless she was deemed dangerous and mentally unfit by a judge or she signed papers that waived her rights she should have been able to check out of her own free will.
They also treat her past depressive episode like it's some deep dark secret as if she had a psychotic break. It's completely ridiculous and offensive.
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My favorite part was him saying 'I love you' before leaving her in the hospital.
I love you so much I couldn't even sit down and talk with you before having you committed under shady circumstances. I took the suspicions of your busy body 'friend' and the fact that you stopped acting like my doormat of a wife and got one of my fellow doctor pals to violate your rights as a human being, but yeah, I really love you.
s-s-fergie (Wed Dec 31 2014 12:06:04)Too bad there isn't a way to rate posts, yours deserves some attention. Awesome sarcasm to perfectly describe the situation, I loved it (not being sarcastic either). share
My favorite part was him saying 'I love you' before leaving her in the hospital.
I love you so much I couldn't even sit down and talk with you before having you committed under shady circumstances. I took the suspicions of your busy body 'friend' and the fact that you stopped acting like my doormat of a wife and got one of my fellow doctor pals to violate your rights as a human being, but yeah, I really love you.
Agreed. Fergie nailed it.
His idea of love is whack. Control is his deal.