This was one strange movie. I had a hard time on deciding a rating.

This movie falls in the cracks of what might be real and what could never happen. Too many unanswered questions such as why didn't he sue her and have her locked up for mental help while he raised the kids?

It was depicted after the fact of her trying to "talk" over and over again to her husband and his constant not listening or telling her she was "a bit off", "crazy", didn't know what she was talking about, "nothing a little prozac wouldn't cure". His making her feel like nothing even after just 3 days of their marriage. His taking control and not treating her as a partner, an extension of him and worth something. He took all the self-worth and esteem away from years of neglect and abandonment even though he was there! Unfortunately, this happens more than you think because people don't listen, really listen to their spouse's needs, wants, desires and then the "love" they are supposed to have where providing (or at least, knowing what) those desires, needs to that significant other for them to be happy. He never once seemed to try to put her happiness at the top of his priority list. He knew she wasn't happy but didn't seem to think it important enough to try and find out why she wasn't or change the situation. That's not honoring or loving someone. It's as she said, "treating her as property". Look up the definition of honor... to honor someone or thing. It's like a Stratavarius violin. It's rare and precious because there aren't many of them or the quality of it has outstood the test of time. When you see one, you feel in awe... that it's something to be treasured, cherished, taken care of. That's what it means to "honor" someone or thing. Imagine how you would make the one you supposedly love feel if everytime you saw them you made the effort to let them know you honor them by the excitement in your words and actions? Imagine how you would make them feel if you consistantly took that away? Isn't that effort worth it to make the one you are supposed to care about the most happy? To let them feel the freedom to return those words and actions? That they are "worthy" of your affection and to return it? That's what this movie was about... the deprivation of human emotion, affection, self-worth and how it can, over short or long periods of time, affect someone so strongly that it causes them to act out of character or reach a breaking point and do something that is not their normal way of being. Every person in the world should be "honored" because they are unique. There is only "one" of them anywhere. Those differences and uniqueness should be "honored" especially if you chose that person to be with in marriage... as a partner in life!

That woman is totally screwed up! Im not saying that the guy is a saint, however this scenario was premeditated and I mean months or years in the making since it turns out that she has been a hooker such a long time.
They BOTH ignored their relationship, not just the guy. The movie makes no attempt to convey her trying to TALK to her husband about being unhappy. To me the movie says that she wanted out of the marriage and to make him suffer out of spite.
What's even lamer, is the fact that the guy doesn't do anything about it at the end. No resolve, the movie leaves you hanging, which I don't think serves itself well. If they wanted to make it seem like the guy did this to himself, they should have worked harder at the beginning of the script. This movie is a dud.

this movie is painfully slow.

It was ok, but the ending sucked. I wanted the dad to get pay back but then the movie just ends and leaves you hanging.