Swallow

i want to eat marbles too lady you’re not special

One of the most realistic movies I’ve ever seen. Made my stomach sick in the best ways and felt sorry for Hunter throughout the entirety of this movie. I partially relate to this movie (some aspects of it)

I really liked how this movie taught me something I never knew about. How the main character slowly realized how unhappy she was and how she took back her freedom.

Hunter uses her pica disorder as a version of control over her life after her husband Richie, I believe, raped her. He acts oddly praising towards her and offers her gifts as a form of an apology after learning something related to her past. She said she gave up a lot for him which I feel is her trying to be accepted despite what had happened to her. When she met her father, she went to get an abortion after to close that circle of keeping the child without wanting to. The high expectations Richie and his parents had for her, especially with her being pregnant, made everything very stressful, which was obvious as she went about her day.

I hated her husband. I could tell he was off when he ignored her to answer his business call at the beginning of this movie. He was manipulative and fed her sweet words about promising to better understand her before forcing her to sign an agreement for the mental hospital. I'm glad she left him, but it never showed what happened with him or where she would go.

The disorder wasn't really a huge part of the movie, in my opinion. It was more so everyone's reaction to the first encounter that filled up most of the screen time.

I am glad she got rid of the baby so she had nothing tying her down to her husband.

You feel the desperation with her and you feel the relief with her absolutely amazing

It’s fun to watch with a friend but if I had watched this alone, it wouldn’t have been worth my time