#You know the scene in Home Alone where Marv steps on a nail?Every scene is like that but worse
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aroaceinthestreets · 1 year ago
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AroAce at the Movies: Violent Night
I had an aroace moment while watching Violent Night with my parents.
The story opens with a divorced? separated? estranged couple and their daughter going to see dad's insanely rich family Christmas. Amidst all the other set up for the movie there's a scene where the daughter tells Santa that what she really wants for Christmas is for her parents to make up. And she's a cute little kid so right away you know the movie is going to end with the parents getting back together and giving things another go.
Now, I'm not inherently opposed to this happening, but to pull this off a movie needs to give me a good reason why a couple is getting back together that is not Well, it'll make our kid happy. No. If they were ready to call it quits despite the kid before, there needs to be a good reason why both parties believe that the thing causing tension in the relationship before won't be a problem anymore or will get better.
What's causing tension in this relationship you might ask. Well dad's rich family are all very terrible people and husband's kind-of a terrible person when he's around them. Wife wants him to cut ties with them and stop sucking up to his terrible mother in a vain attempt to be named heir over his terrible sister.
So surely, when the couple later starts making out in the snow surrounded by dead and battered home invaders, that concern has been at least partially addressed right?
No. Not even a little bit. The previous scene with this couple was a reveal that the husband had stolen 300 million dollars from his mother (who had stolen it from the US military) and had planned to leave the family mansion with his wife, daughter, and money in the middle of the night, leaving his mother a taunting note to unwrap in her present on Christmas morning. Needless to say, the wife was not pleased with this.
When I complained about this my parents told me Well, dangerous situations bring people together. They explain well it in Speed.
And I gotta say, I didn't buy that when they did it in Speed either. Is this just a thing that danger charges people up? I would think that immediately after surviving a terrorist attack or a home invasion hooking up with the other people who have just been traumatized would be the last thing on my mind. In fact that seems like the worst possible moment to start a new relationship. Is this a real thing or something the allos made up for the movies? I understand feeling close to someone after a shared experience but why would shared trauma automatically translate into romantic/sexual feelings?
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