Seriously! Questioning all of Ma's choices and everything! SHE didn't go through all this, Ma did! You can't judge someone who has been in such horrible circumstances.
"After all this time, Severus?"
"Always."
I can see such a thing happening, to a degree. The media is meant to ask questions that provoke interesting thought. Her questions are ones I would have that, but perhaps asked at a later date or around softer ones.
shareYou must not be very familiar with the news media.
shareI thought the question about "did you consider asking for him to be taken into care" was perfectly reasonable actually. Obviously hard for her to hear that question, but reasonable nonetheless.
shareThe way the reporter worded that question made is sound like she was calling Joy a bad mother. It was an awful thing to ask her. I agree with what someone else said in this thread that it was an absurd question to ask because there was no guarantee that he would have left Jack somewhere safe had Joy asked.
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Exactly! She would always wonder if he was dead, unless the TV news reported the baby being dropped off.
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How was it reasonable? We are talking about a man here who kidnapped a person and held her hostage for years. So can you imagine him leave Jack at a hospital, just like that? No way. He would've killed him. I read the book, I just saw the movie, and this was very upsetting to me, the question from the reporter. I know it's pretty tough to actually think like that guy, not everyone can be Clarice Starling, but I truly believe that a person who is capable of such things as holding a woman hostage for years, that person is obviously capable of killing someone.
Hence Ma has this plan, for their escape, after the guy tells her that he lost his job. Cause what's he gonna do when he won't be able to pay for food, electricity etc. ? He's gonna just release them with waving good-bye? No, he would've killed them both. Just like he would've killed Jack if Ma asked him to leave him at a hospital.
Well then that's a very easy answer to the question if that's actually what was stopping her. I think the question is still perfectly valid though.
shareI'm not sure what is easy about a psycho person who kills your child, but okay...
shareThat's an incoherent, illogical response to what I said. She's just answering a question. If the reason she didn't ask to put the child in care was because she was afraid he would kill the child, then she could have easily said so. Are you suggesting she was so traumatized by the question that she was unable to speak?
shareObviously she was traumatized... And not only that, but I think she didn't even think about this, when Jack was born. She was already in the room for 2 years, right? So just imagine how she felt about this man, I think it was pure instinct of her not to let this man to take Jack. I mean she doesn't even let him to see him, touch him. And all those are instincts, cause hello, the guy is a frakin' psycopath. So of course she's not gonna let him to take her son. And again, because this was some instinct of her, she never even considered any other possibilities, until the reporter asked it. Then she tried to kill herself, then she recovered, I think mainly because she had time to think through all of this and realized, now not only with her instincts, but with her concious mind as well, that it was the best decision for Jack that she kept him with herself, in the room.
And you don't give your child to a psychopath. That should be obvious. So, if you want a reasonable question, here it is: "Why didn't you let the man take Jack? He probably would've killed him, but still, he wouldn't have to live in the room."
Are you suggesting she was so traumatized by the question that she was unable to speak?
Not sure why Joy answered "no" to that question. She tried at least twice to get Jack out and potentially sacrifice herself in the process.
shareI wish they'd left her telling her off in the movie. There's no guarantee that the kid's life would have been ideal if he'd been adopted. Maybe he would have learned about being left at a hospital and felt abandoned. She did the best she could. In fact, in the book, I think she was super patient with him. It can't be easy to be in a small room with a child and never able to take a break. She was an excellent mother.
He said,
"Just put your feet down child,
'Cause you're all grown up now."
The idea that Old Nick would have taken the baby Jack to a hospital is of course absurd.
He would have killed him.
That's what makes the question from the reporter so ridiculous.
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I thought that exactly. I was also waiting for her to tell the interviewer about her attempt at sending Jack to the hospital, showing how dismissive Old Nick was
shareCouldn't agree more. How could anyone expect a demented looney who kidnapped a 17-year-old-girl to do the right thing? How could Joy trust him? He might have easily sold the kid on the underground market for body parts! Joy may have still been too stressed from her ordeal to point that out to the interviewer, but I thought for sure her lawyer or her mother would have read the riot act to the brain-dead moron for asking such an absurd question & stopped the interview.
shareThank you! I just replied with pretty much the same to someone, and now I read your views on this. Of course he'd have killed him.
shareExactly! Old Nick would never have risked his identity to take a baby to a hospital. He would have killed Jack. Joy did exactly the right thing protecting, raising and loving Jack. Maybe it wasn't in ideal circumstances, but the important thing was she loved and protected Jack.
shareBut her telling off the reporter would've missed the point, or at least altered the plot dramatically.
You can tell from her reaction when she's asked that "Ma" never considered being separated from her child. Logic notwithstanding—what he would've done or wouldn't have done—the point was that she (like any mother) didn't want to be separated from her child.
That's why she tries to kill herself afterwards.
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Typical c_nt interviewer. Still not as bad as Diane Sawyer though.
shareI don't know, but it seemed like a horribly unfair question to ask a girl in Joy's circumstances.
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Suffragette: 8
Room: 10
That's how reporters are.
Pedophiles, terrorists, reporters.
Pretty much all on the same moral level.
Reporters are lie flies... Eat dung and bother people.
I wanted to slap the beotch.
sharei thought the 'did you consider giving him up to go into care' the most preposterous, like everyone here said. old nick would have killed him, not taken him to a hospital.
although i found her answer about nick being his father interesting, especially after interviews with people like jaycee dugard shrug and say 'it is what it is'.