[ SECRET POST #4788 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4788 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for Shameless season 10]



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04. [SPOILERS for Knives Out]



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05. [SPOILERS for Titans season 2]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]

[Gone Girl]


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08. [WARNING for discussion of rape]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird to me that anyone could see this film and thing that "desperate" and "behaving badly" were mutually exclusive or distinct behaviors in the situation of "a person who has always been rich suddenly stripped of wealth".

Like. Yes. Of course he's desperate. And he is "one of the nice ones". But suddenly, when he's the one desperate, instead of the one comfortable and safe and in a position to be generous....well, y'know. The Knives Come Out.

He WANTED to be one of the nice ones. He wanted to persuade her to do it nicely. But he was absolutely willing to threaten her too, because the whole point is that with a fortune on the line otherwise seemingly benign people are capable of worse than you thought. He was absolutely threatening her family, and of COURSE he wouldn't have ALREADY reported her, because he only has one card to play. If he plays it and gets her mother deported, she has less no reason to give him anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly this

[(Anonymous)]

Like they said in Parasite -
"They're rich, but still nice."
"They're nice because they're rich."

Marta wins the day because of her kindness she had no matter who she was dealing with or her affluence.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely, Marta's my favourite character by far because of this. I didn't mean to imply that she was being unfair in the situation at all.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Of course he's not going to go to the press before he talks to her, I mean more that he doesn't do so even after she's made it clear that she isn't going to give up the inheritance. I don't think he shared it with the majority of the family as well since the scene with Richard early on makes it clear that the first thing he would do is try to criminalize that. Something I think they would be able to make a case with in court to revoke the inheritance with knowing she or her mother is in the country illegally.

I do believe she felt as if he was threatening her, and with good reason, after all the stress/shock/how quickly everyone turned on her, but I don't think that was his intention when he went to her. He seems the most passive of the bunch, imo, the most willing to talk as he's the only one to try to do so. Trying to make a deal isn't the same as trying to extort.
The narrative of a mystery is to keep the viewer guessing, to lean towards ideas and impressions that might not necessarily be true. The way I see it, his motives and his actions don't line up quite as cleanly as the narrative implies. It's scenes like this that make it, and mysteries like it so good.