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You'd think she'd be a little more reserved...

posted 9 years ago by HumanTheONLyRace
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I mean you were dragged around from sex house to sex house where you saw girls drugged and forced in to sex work, then "taken" into a flesh auction where you would be auctioned off to some guy(s)(that extra s makes this plural, as after the big guy was done, I'm pretty sure they all would've had some cake, then who knows what) AND the first scene we see is of you in some guys house.

Now, for girls who haven't been through such a traumatic situation, I can see them over a guys house like that, and hey, as a guy that's good, love it, but for a girl that's been through so much, with the loss of her friend, I mean she had to tell her friends parents, anyway, I think she'd be along the lines of those girls that waited until she was much older(mid 20s for her situation) and to allow herself to be a bit more mentally ready.

Anyway, I'm still watching, and judging by her reaction in that situation, we got the teeny reaction effect, plus she doesn't even have her drivers license. I forgot how old she was in the first, but I'm guessing 17?? So what, 18, 19 in this one?

And by all means, for a normal girl at that age, to be sexually active is normal and healthy. So I'm not advocating for female sexual repression.

But for her, you'd think she'd be a bit more reserved, not even on the let's only/just make out in your empty house side, because I'm sure most people know that could always end up going in a variety of ways.

And then she goes to a club? Why not read, be an activist, I don't even if your elite dad is at the table..... ah whatever hollywood, it could've been done, but hollywood.

[–] Silly28 8 years ago

Agreed. Always bothered me how nobody changed. The daughter is still hiding stuff from her dad, she's oddly ok with attempting to get busy after the traumatic event, she gets upset with her dad for trying to be protective even after everything that happened and she gets an attitude with him even though he, you know, SAVED HER LIFE all on his own and almost died in the process.

Then there's the mom who also didn't learn a thing. She lies to Brian when he asks where their daughter is and later the girl mentions that the mom didn't know where the boyfriend lived. Why tf not? A normal parent usually knows these things but especially one whose daughter was being sold for sex in a foreign country. So frustrating.

[–] redban (6644) 6 days ago

This is a big criticism of the first movie (and this one, by extension). She got over the trauma of the events of part I too easily. Her best friend died in the first one, yet we never see her mourn