Identify the teen movie I re-watched last night from this description:
Plain Jane/girl-next-door with an uncanny ability to suspend her disbelief meets a creepy but attractive (and heavily made-up) supernatural male who, for reasons that are never adequately explained, loves her deeply and is willing to move the very stars for her. Glitter ensues.
If you need a second clue, here’s the kind of thing he says:
“Fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.”
By now, your creep-meter is off the charts, and many of you are thinking “wait…. isn’t that David Bowie?!?”
You’re correct. And unlike the heroine of the unmentionable movie that came out last year (we are so supposedly progressed, right?) in this movie, the 1986 heroine’s response is the sentence that so many of us women need to hear, need to believe, need to understand is the key to our strength and our independence:
“You have no power over me.”
We can enjoy the party, we can want the pretty boy and the dress. We can love. We can need. But we are not powerless. We do not shriek and fall over. We might fall down. We might even fall up once in a while. But we do not go with the blood-sucking, soul-stealing flow of obsessed, manipulative abusers just because they are pretty and claim to love us.
Slow clap. Very well put.