The Piano Teacher: A Femcel Classic

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  @goblinzaku6211 · 2 years ago

  It upsets me so much that taxi driver has become the template for the incel when it has always been an exploration of a mentally unwell veteran returning home from war. At least veterans have experienced the falsehoods of the sacrificial male trope, one that incels can pretend to understand but will never truly comprehend.

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  @TonyIgnatova · 2 years ago

  True story - in my country Piano teacher came out around the same time as The Pianist. So there i was, watching a movie about WWII thinking "this is surprisingly less horny than I thought" 😅😅

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  @kodamagreenone9367 · 2 years ago

  "Erica's mother who is old enough to be her grandmother" when her mom literally looks like she's 60 which makes perfect sense if the protagonist is 40

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  @TheNordicHermit · 2 years ago

  Isabelle Huppert is easily one of the greatest actresses Europe has ever produced. How she can with the smallest facial changes, in the scene where Walter reads her letter, go from contained excitement to dread is nothing but phenomenal.

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  @الغفور-ض1ك · 2 years ago

  as a girl living with an overcontrolling mother i understand how detachment from your body can lead to paraphilias and destructive desires. in the age of 13-17 i suffered most severely & i remember being literally obsessed with masochistic fantasies, with them even leading to self-harm. i felt like i had a desperate need for roughest forms of submission. urinating instead of m@sturbatuon was a huge thing too. to my surprise, i found many things in this film extremely relatable and i was happy to see the representation. usually people don't understand how overcontrolling mothers can lead you to insanity, they think it's not a big deal

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  @katet8639 · 2 years ago

  People labeling this movie and Taxi Driver as femcel or incel classics oversimplify and reduce the complexity of the issues both protagonists are experiencing. Both writers and directors effectively portray the deep-seated internal issues that can lead to extreme behavior. In The Piano Teacher, these issues and problems she faced manifested in self-harm, adding another layer of complexity to the character.

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  @samanthabuttheadd · 2 years ago

  The Piano Player reminds me of Grey Gardens. Narcissistic mothers are so scary, they'll have you running back to the hand that hit you over and over again.

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  @WhitneyDahlin · 2 years ago (edited)

  Dude the mother-daughter relationship in the first movie reminds me a lot of the mother-daughter relationship in Black Swan! Both very talented and sheltered daughters living with a controlling and domineering abusive mother. I really like when movies and shows talk about the toxic relationships that mothers can have with their daughters. Because I actually do have a mother who is a truly terrible person. She&apos;s an addict who literally ruins the life of every single person around her. She&apos;s always been weirdly jealous and controlling and hateful to my sister and i. I ran away from home at 17 and never went back. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp;Whenever people ask about my parents I just say I&apos;m an orphan. It&apos;s so much easier than trying to explain that my mother is literally evil. When I first ran away I did explain that to people and I can&apos;t tell you how many people told me I shouldn&apos;t have cut my mother off because she just wants what&apos;s best for me. When they didn&apos;t even know my mother first of all, and secondly no she didn&apos;t. She only wants what&apos;s best for herself.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;I think it&apos;s really beyond people who have good mothers to understand that a mother can really be an evil person. It&apos;s just such an alien concept, so outside of their own experience and relationship with their mother that they literally can&apos;t understand it. Especially because in the vast vast majority of all media and all stories mothers are pretty much universally seen as truly good and loving. So I really think it&apos;s important to have media about abusive and toxic mothers<br><br>EDIT: it really breaks my heart there are so many other people who can relate to this. You aren&apos;t alone and you don&apos;t deserve to be treated like that. Your mother should love you unconditionally and treat you with kindness and compassion. Your mother should never make you feel small, or unwanted or as if you&apos;re a burden, or you&apos;re the problem. A mother should be safety. It makes me so sad and im shocked there are so many of us on just this video! It must be more common than i realize and im sure many people never mention it because its just so difficult for people to understand. My heart goes out to all of you, you arent alone even if no one talks about their experiences openly ❤

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  @shahan4005 · 2 years ago

  I wonder if in some sick way Erika was attempting to free Anna from ending up like her by destroying her hands, which is the very thing Erika had been reduced to. and also it would like free her inner child or something..

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  @rturae · 2 years ago

  Humans are so strange and complex

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  @M0joPin · 2 years ago

  &quot;What will all this get me?&quot; line ties in so well with the rampage Walter goes on in the second half of the movie. I&apos;ve never noticed it before.

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  @flymilo904 · 2 years ago

  Fleabag was not a femcel by any means, not every character perceived as “problematic or anti heroish messy woman”is a femcel

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