Thank you for joining us once again on your favorite life lessons movie blog. This episode's movie is a cleverly crafted story with top-notch acting from its cast which includes Hollywood stars Kristen Stewart and Ed Harris. Our focus on life lessons and social inferences revealed lots of lessons from its scenes. Enjoy reading.
- The Subtle Sex Workers
Jackie (Katy O'Brian) serves it to JJ (Dave Franco), before hooking up with Lou his sister in-law. She serves up herself in return for favors like getting a job and a place to stay. Its a subtle type of sex working, as she navigates being broke while trying to achieve her goal of stardom. In reality, how many of us judge commercial sex workers without actually noticing how much sex pays for the things most people acquire. Subtle sex workers exist everywhere especially among people who seek a shortcut to success. Sometimes it all goes well, but it often comes with negative drawbacks. So give yourself time to learn and grow. Give yourself time to thrive and enjoy every moment of your journey because stardom is a process not an end goal.
- Love Yourself First
Lou who has to dip her hands into a filthy toilet to unclog it, and along with other stressful aspects of her job and life, ends up sponsoring Jackie's dreams with her finances and apartment. Her lonely wanking makes her so vulnerable that it only takes a little muscle touch to get her all weak in the knees. So she offers all she has to support Jackie's goals. Jackie gets a dose of sexual pleasure while working towards achieving her goals on someone else's bill. In reality, sexual pleasure is everywhere because all men have dicks, just tell them where it itches. Everyone wants the easy way out, and its applaudable but just don't be their doormat. Don't be the one who offers all his sugar to be licked and ends up getting nothing in return. Healthy relationships are mutually beneficial.
- Orchestrated or Impromptu Heartbreak
Lou is heartbroken by the realization that Jackie has been with JJ, and Jackie is distraught because it wasn't intentional. In reality, there are so many unintentional mishaps in relationships arising from indiscipline, the spur of the moment, and emotional influences. Life isn't perfect, it never has been. However, there are certain factors orchestrated by the systems of cheating which are focused on the destruction of love that lead to increased occurrences of such mistakes. Such factors include unemployment, a lack of true development and social balance which puts more young adults at risk of impromptu heartbreak scenarios. It is important to have a certain level of tolerance in your relationships because sex is quite enticing. A level of tolerance that can help you withstand emotional outbursts and make objective decisions regarding your love life. Not everything is purposely planned to be against you.
- Toxic and Abusive Relationships
JJ's relationship with Beth (Jena Malone) is abusively toxic. He shouts her down and beats her up. In reality, this is a controversial topic or situation. There are people who incite a bit of violence to bear their guilt. For example, the woman who has lived through a lot of sexual depravity before getting a decent husband. Such women sometimes incite violent or aggressive behaviors from their spouse as a way to bear the guilt of their past. Such women never press charges against domestic abuse, because they've seen worse and they purposely incited their spouse. However, they could also be victims of orchestrated guilt, because such feelings are generally used to keep women subservient.
There is also the socially subdued and subservient spouse who has no knowledge or awareness that she can do better and out of fear of losing what she has, she stays silent.
Then there is the entrapped enslaved sadistic BDSM practitioners who think their asses are the vault for preventing the end of the world and are willing to bear anything to reject confessing.
It is sad how we exploit each other. Sad how we take advantage of the weak and ignorant. We should learn to be responsible to one another. Have a limit on your tolerance levels and objectively access your partner's attitudes towards you. As a society we should look out for such people by providing social services, protection, and awareness so that people do not languish in ignorance.
- Emotional Mistakes
Jackie is pushed by emotions to kill JJ. Her outbursts and anger towards JJ is based on the feelings from upsetting her love, Lou, and the sight of Beth's battered face at the hospital. However, killing is a greater sin than domestic violence. This is a major reason why abusive relationships should be ditched because it often leads to worse scenarios. Besides, sometimes the system of things works to spoil your joy. So don't be like Jackie, don't lose what you have gained because of emotions. You should have a tactic for withstanding being upset, like deep breathing, meditation, and potential outcome analysis. This is especially important for people that are trained in martial arts or combative techniques, gun owners, and muscle builders because their strengths are potentially fatal to the untrained. Ask yourself before taking aggressive actions, 'What you would gain or benefit from retaliatory actions?'. If you take a deep breath and consider the consequences of retaliating, more often than not, you'd realize that you'd lose even more. So stay calm and think of a long term solution to your abusive spouse.
- Double Standards
Jackie ultimately becomes abusive towards Lou as she dashes out a tooth breaking headbutt to Lou's jaw during an argument. Like we have mentioned in previous movie reviews, don't become what you complain about. In fact, everyone has a little bit of primitiveness under their garments, that needs resilience, tolerance, and discipline to withstand. Being unnecessarily judgmental often leads to double standards and its better to build objective awareness and mindfulness. See further discussions on double standards in the movie reviews of Mona Lisa Smile, Honey Don't, Subservience, American Sweatshop, and Mother.
- Contentment
Daisy (Anna Baryshnikov) tries had to win Lou's heart with attention, love cards, and gifts. However, Lou pays her little attention and craves instead for the exciting Jackie. Her captivation towards Jackie ultimately leads to her involvement in murder and a tooth breaking headbutt. It is a lesson in contentment! Sometimes the unexciting, boring, shy lover offers much more benefits than that allure you are craving. You only need to communicate honestly with your partner to find joy in who they are. Just let them know the things you fancy and share new moments with the person who truly loves you.
- Gender Neutral
Jackie and Lou's relationship ultimately turns out to be an abusive one. Its an inference to the fact that relationship issues are gender neutral. Whether it be gay, lesbian, or whatever, humans are humans and the human emotion is prone to corruption that requires understanding through communication, tolerance, resilience, and a bit of discipline to control. We should call a spade a spade and face our societal issues which prevent the blooming of true love and hinder the proper civilization and social development of our world.
- Misguided Misdirection
We have two statements from this movie to ponder on. The first statement is from Jackie on a phone call to her siblings as she warned them to 'Never fall in love because it hurts'. The second statement is from Beth fighting with Lou, she said 'You don't know anything about love'. If we are being honest were these two people in love or where they experiencing love as they claim? In reality, the pleasures of love extend beyond sex to emotional and physical welfare from both sides. Love is not an oath of subservience or a commitment bond. Its a feeling of ease of oneness in purpose and hope. Love is a sense of mutual belongingness not an enslaving entrapment. Both Jackie and Beth have a misdirected and misguided notion of what love is. Even Lou is just being foolish with her devoted commitment as she makes excuses for all of Jackie's wrongs. Limits people, limits. Learn to walk away because you can't fix everything.
Thank you once again for reading through this week's edition of your favorite life lessons movie review blog. We hope you enjoyed this week's issue of life lessons and morals from the movie Love Lies Bleeding (2024). You can find streaming sources for the movie on the links below.
Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/winnipeg/watch/video/15419015
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19637052/
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