![]() ![]() SYSTEM: Attention, students, we need to lockdown. RUE: I just showed up one day, without a map or a compass. LESLIE: Why is the co-payment $300? Rue, did you eat breakfast? RUE: And at some point, you make a choice about who you are and what you want. GIA: Did you see that video of the beauty queen who got acid thrown on her face? ![]() How could he suddenly be out of network? (.) I can't afford it. LESLIE: You said the doctor was in our network. RUE: Until every second of every day, you find yourself trying to outrun your anxiety. RUE: And every now and then, if I focused too closely on the way I breathed. TEACHER: Does anybody have any idea of what a preposition might be? Just that the world moved fast and my brain moved slow. RUE: I don't remember much between the ages of eight and 12. LESLIE: And your favorite, Britney Spears. Plenty of great, intelligent, funny, interesting, and creative people have struggled with the same things you struggle with. LESLIE: Honey, it's just the way your brain was hardwired. RUE: It's not like I was physically abused. THERAPIST: I'd say she's suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. RUE: And then, without warning, a middle-class childhood in an American suburb. ![]() RUE: My mother and father spent two days in the hospital, holding me under the soft glow of the television, watching those towers fall over and over again, until the feelings of grief gave way to numbness. BUSH: I can hear you, I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. I put up a good fight, but I lost, for the first time, but not the last. over and over by the cruel cervix of my mother, Leslie. Then one day, for reasons beyond my control, I was repeatedly crushed. ![]() Sloshing around in my own private, primordial pool. A lot of the discourse about the scene is over-reactive because many of the show’s viewers prioritize the dramatics of the show and its relationships.RUE: I was once happy. Sometimes hard decisions have to be made in order to save a life. This scene in particular isn’t about hurting someone’s feelings out of spite or maintaining a relationship. She has seen the dangers of addiction through her mother, so it makes sense for her to do what she can to stop it from also happening to Rue. How could Jules love Rue if she betrayed her? Jules had no responsibility to tell Rue’s mom, but she simply didn’t want Rue to die. When Rue yells at Jules and preys on her insecurities, all Jules can say is “I love you.” This made some fans more annoyed with her. If Jules went straight to Rue, Rue wouldn’t have listened. Whether it was wrong of Jules to do is not up for debate - as Rue said, it saved her life. I mean, people were even saying that she deserved to be yelled at by Rue as harshly as she had. When it comes to the situation of Jules “snitching” on Rue to her mom, I was surprised at the amount of backlash towards Jules. I do think it’s important to consider how Jules could have made such a decision. I am in no way condoning cheating and infidelity. Jules is in a relationship in which she feels unwanted and disconnected, and Elliot offers her what Rue doesn’t. Like…Like, my body, and my personality, and, like, my soul around what I think men desire? It’s just, like…it’s embarrassing. She says herself: “I just, like, I look at myself, and I’m like, how the fuck did I spend my entire life building this. In Jules’ special episode (and throughout Season 1 in general), it’s obvious that she seeks affection through male validation. Even when they are together, Rue is too preoccupied by her high to be satisfied (both sexually and mentally) by Jules. Rue feels like she’s on top of the world with a girlfriend and unlimited drugs, so she begins to neglect Jules. After she meets Elliot, Rue is using more than ever before, especially after she gets a suitcase of drugs from drug lord Laurie. ![]()
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