this movie is as stupid as it gets
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Dawgisfun — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 06:15 AM)
When you have clinical depression or a related mental illness you do not choose to be a victim.
When you perceive that you are helpless, you feel that you are not in control of the situation, therefore, need help from somebody or something.
She did not want to help herself? That makes no sense. Why would she want to stay there and decrease her flourishing? She obviously felt helpless
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cinesimon — 14 years ago(November 15, 2011 04:42 PM)
Your childishness and ignorance could not be any more pathetic.
Kiddo, when you actually grow up a bit, you'll look back upon such nonsense as this bizarre and reality-defying belief of yours with embarrassment. -
cbeckerman1 — 14 years ago(November 16, 2011 12:09 PM)
it is bizarre to not think of yourself as a victim when your at your lowest point or to think that life as it is might not be livable? I am not sure what you find strange about this but I dont understand how to simply escape reality do you think a starving man imagines food on which to live and that's enough for him to live? the reality is your starving lilyas reality like it or not, accept it or not was that she was a sex slave, I am only happy that she chose not to continue this miserable existence that she had no control over, the only control she had was whether or not to go to the authorities, but since she chose not to do that at least she chose the second best thing. living life as a victim is a choice you make whether conscious or unconscious, it takes strength to do something - anything about it.
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couzijn — 14 years ago(November 20, 2011 03:22 PM)
You can't tell from the outside whether Lilya was a victim by 'conscious or unconscious' choice or not. That's just your hypothesis. A hypothesis that can't fail is a useless hypothesis debatewise. You are free to believe in it, of course.
I find it rather naive to believe that victims of a situation for which they are not responsible may simply 'choose' to free themselves from its consequences. One probably needs hindsight for that.
It is just a small step from your point-of-view to the idea that Jews in WWII were guilty of their own demise because they failed to 'choose to take their fate into their own hands'. -
Dismenot — 11 years ago(August 08, 2014 10:05 PM)
pea aphids can commit suicide are you trying to tell me shes less intelligent than an insect but we should still have sympathy for her?
Spoken like a true blue fascist.
What a heartless berk, please go away.
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Miss_Xray — 10 years ago(October 15, 2015 05:35 PM)
Very well said and hope that is true.
Some people just don't have any concept of what it is to be traumatized and just sees it from their point of view, witch is really far off from being in that situation. Pure ignorance. =/ -
turkeyprophet — 13 years ago(April 09, 2012 06:19 AM)
What was she supposed to do when she escaped? She doesn't have any ID. She presumably doesn't speak much English or any Swedish. I think she was Russian and if that was the case then she can't stay in Sweden.
So assuming that she managed to get away (which she did after a short amount of time), what was she going to do? Live on the streets? Go back home and live a crappy life or get murdered? -
HornyDonkey — 13 years ago(November 23, 2012 08:19 PM)
Did your mom drop you when you were a babyrepeatedly?
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buchowski — 13 years ago(February 03, 2013 03:35 PM)
"if I was her I would simply refuse to eat"
cbeckerman1, you are a complete moron. They ply girls with alcohol and drugs, repeatedly rape them, they are not able to say no when drunk and drugged.
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ketone_of_sexiness — 12 years ago(December 08, 2013 06:30 PM)
I think Lilya had reached her last shred of hope by the time she got to Sweden. I think the Lilya in the beginning of the movie,with her personality and spunk, would have got out of there. But if you add up all that happened to Lily (starting from her mother abandoning her) up until she arrives in Sweden, I think it is safe to say she was at her wits end.
some people just reach their limit of what they can handle.
The authorities back in her home country were not very active in helping her find a place to live, making sure she had food, etc.
And then when she gets to Sweden, she is sold for one night to a guy who lives like a westerner. American style big house, big garage for the car.To Lilya, ordinarily that beautiful home and way of life would have represented a ray of hope for her, but the fact that someone who lived in what she thought was a dream would act that way, it basically destroys any last trust she has in any authority figures.
In Lilya's mind, she has a glamorous, naive view of the west. She most likely thinks that the back door, sketchy things that happen at home do not happen in the West. When she gets sold to that guy in the nice house, her idea of safety and a new life in the west is destroyed for good.This is why she starts talking to herself and the guy in the strange manner that she does when she gets there. -
LadyKosha — 11 years ago(July 28, 2014 05:51 PM)
Either you're victim blaming or trolling but either way, it's pretty low down.
This child held on to the dream of joining her mother in the US. When it became apparent that wasn't going to happen, that was when she started to lose the will to live. Prior to that she held on to so e hope, as many people in dire circumstances do.
You saying she should just have killed herself sooner says far more about your lack of humanity than her intelligence.
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poem — 9 years ago(June 13, 2016 12:37 AM)
Whow. Whow. WHOW !!!
Apparently you really have no ability for empathy, suffer from a huge lack of common sense and dont remember what it means to be a child at all.
All at the same time.
I can only guess you're really, really very tired or something like that.
Plus apparently a huge hatred for religion. Which is probably explained by your huge hatred for religion.
Seriously, how doesnt one manage to get that people dont easily suicide ? In reality most of such victims will of course survive these circumstances, albeit with a huge psychological trauma.
To call this movie stupid for the reasons given is just stupid.
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