I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
I know you didn__ see the violence and need for control in him in the beginning, but I__ sure it was there. Nothing you did turned him into such an abusive man. And you _ well, you just didn__ see your own value before that. It__ an easy thing for a woman to overlook. We__e taught from the cradle that men rule.
Whistling Past the Graveyard
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I know you didn__ see the violence and need for control in him in the beginning, but I__ sure it was there. Nothing you did turned him into such an abusive man. And you _ well, you just didn__ see your own value before that. It__ an easy thing for a woman to overlook. We__e taught from the cradle that men rule.
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