This movie is an example that marrying into extreme wealth (if you are poorer) is no better than being enslaved.
This family could dispose of her at their will.
Unless she had the resolved to doing her own self imposed witness protection program and disappear without a trace she was bound to hunted down by the sick husband.
Wealthy families are really akin to being in the mob. There's no getting out, once you are in.
I could not agree with you more! As it is said "Money Talks & BS Walks"
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Really? I didn't think of her as "doomed from the moment she met him". I think it was a good love story in the beginning but he had definite emotional problems but I think he really loved her and as much as the father didn't think she was one of them in the beginning, I don't think he was all that evil. The movie suggests in the end that David killed her and put her body in his truck almost to punish his father for allowing him to see his other kill herself which led to all of his emotional problems. I think the father wanted to protect his son, I don't think he was evil even if they didn't do the right thing. And yes because of their money, they had more resources but still.
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I'm on the same page as you on this one. Being in a job that you hate and trying to live your life to please someone else and seeing your mom commit suicide and having a loveless detached father on top of all that could turn the most well adjusted child into a freak.
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Money was actually the least of their problems. I believe if David were any other entitled rich brat, he would've let her go and replaced her and paid her off. But David was emotionally screwed up, and honestly, she didn't really know that much about him before she married him.
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Yep, I agree with you and LovesConfusingJoy. Not the OP. Money had little to do with their issues, really his issues. I believe they really cared about each other but when things got difficult (like in any marriage) he didn't have the emotional health to deal with it.
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Which is why the OP said "from the second she married him" not as you said "from the moment she 'met' him". They married precociously, as do a majority of lovers, without asking each other all the necessary life choices questions.
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You are aware aren't you that most rich families are not composed of psychos? You talk as though this is standard operating procedure amongst the rich, whick only goes to show you have no idea what you're talking about.
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