Analysis Of The Film 'Waitress'

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In the film, Waitress (2007), Jenna Hunterson has just found out that she is pregnant with her abusive husband, Earl.However, throughout the film, Jenna begins to have an affair with Dr. Jim Pomatter, whom is the knight and shining armor to help Jenna get away from her abusive husband, and try to “save the day.” In the film, Director Adrienne Shelly demonstrates to the audience how the Power and Control Wheel is used in the film, through examples such as emotional abuse, male privilege, and intimidation. On the other hand, the film has made errors in regards to what a domestic violence relationship would look like by adding in an unhealthy relationship with a married doctor, how Jenna did not officially end the relationship with her husband
In Queen’s “Being Emotionally Abuse: A Phenomenological Study of Adult Women’s Experience of Emotionally Abusive Intimate Partner Relationship”, focused on a total of 15 women, who have been emotionally abused from an intimate partner relationship and wanted the women to describe, “What is it like to live the life of a woman who is emotionally abused by her intimate partner?” When experiencing emotional abuse, it can be express as “not easily detected; it is non-transparent in there is no physical markers.” (Bornstein 2007, Campbell & Humphreys, 1984; Evans 1996; Gelles & Strauss, 19888; Kurst-Swanger & Petcosk, 2003, O’Leary 1999; Walker, 2000). The emotional abuse can be very hurtful towards the women at times because while in the cycle of the relationship, the woman cannot tell when something bad or good will happen. While this is happening, she begins to lose strength that she once had before and in away she is trapped inside her own mind. With physical harm, individuals outside the relationship can notice the bumps and bruises on the skin. Alma, a young mother of three pre-teen girls describes her personal experience with emotional abuse as, “I was very restricted. He wouldn’t allow me to contact my mom...my family, my friends. After I had my daughter, I wasn’t allowed to go to the doctor. I could only go to take my daughter...I didn’t know anything about our checking account..I didn’t have my own money.” When thinking about emotional abuse, understand that you cannot see the “bumps and bruises” but you can still see the effect it has on the partner by using their minds as their weapon rather focus upon the individual. According to Queen and others, after their research, they would define

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