Anyone else think Annie Wilkes may be the victim here? The woman clearly needed some medical attention as well... maybe if a doctor provided her with the right medication she would have been stable and the outcome would have been more pleasant for everyone....
shareYou could say that about any psychotic who hurts and kills people. Annie was clever enough to know what she was doing was illegal and wrong. She was a dangerously clever fraud. That sweet innocent act she put on for the Sheriff.
shareTheres not just one victim here, Annie is oviouosly crazy, and Paul is hobbled, and confined in his room. This is all crucial to the story, but i think Buster is the real victim. His death was so sad, and alarming.
"If i die, you die."
Nope. Annie may or may not have been abused as a child and she was obviously crazy, but she was not worthy of anyone's sympathy.
She knew exactly what she was doing when she killed those babies, and that nursing student. Annie kidnapped Paul, tortured him.
She knew it was wrong, she didn't care.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
I still sort of feel bad for her. It seems like normal people would know it was wrong and so they wouldn't do it, and maybe feel bad for thinking about it. Kinda seem like her being sick would have had something to do with the fact that she could know it was wrong, not feel bad and do it multiple times...
Maybe If she weren't sick, she wouldn't have done it.
Don't wake me 'cuz I'm dreamin' of angels on the moon...
What is with this trend lately where people are trying to re-define villains and turn bad guys into good guys? Annie was really the victim, Steff was the good guy and Blaine was the jerk, Daniel was the bully and Johnny was the victim. Stop with this silliness.
"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"
No, the real victim was the man she abused and tortured. I knew this thread was coming.
If the roles were reversed would this question be asked, if he didn't get the medication/ treatment he needed? And her being a "strong" woman and a nurse, to boot.
Anyone else think Annie Wilkes may be the victim here? The woman clearly needed some medical attention as well.....
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Why do you have this inane slant on her character being a victim? Yes, she was mentally unstable but not that mentally ill, as to be unable to function and take care of her home and herself. She was good a hiding behind what ever disorder would be attributed to her and I can't recall from the novel; but why was she even allowed to have her independence, due to her history? She was a dangerous woman and she held someone hostage against his will and manipulated, tortured and maimed him. If there is to be any empathy given for Annie, it's because she wasn't right in the head, not because of her actions. If she knew what she was doing, yet couldn't help herself, then she may have been classed psychopathic\schizophrenic; but since this is moviedom, who knows.
I'm sure if some nut-case nurse you trusted to take care of your child instead murdered it, you wouldn't be wringing your hands over which of them was the real victim.
Then again, maybe you would.
Annie is a victim of mental illness. Paul is the victim of Annie's mental illness.
To say that Annie is dangerously insane is not to exonerate her from all responsibility and blame "God and Nature" for her depredations. She's fully aware of what's wrong with her mind, even to the point of leaving Paul alone while she drives away to sort of "cool off". To the extent that Annie does not resist her murderous and possessive urges, she is a villain who capitulates to her worst impulses. Yes, she has an excuse that "real" cold blooded psychopathic murderers don't have...but that excuse can't excuse all of her criminal acts. Thus, as well as a victim, she is also a true villain.