Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
The main character’s experience of PTSD includes some characteristics of hypervigilance against the possibility of being stalked. She is not stalked in the movie.
It's confusing because you see Olga as a kitten in the thumbnail then as an adult in the first scene of the film, so I wondered if there was 2 cats, I wish they would have showed her at the last scene, because doors are left open and she would still be alive age wise, but she doesn't live in a safe area for a cat to be outside, predator wise and I felt like Fran would have mentioned the cat and the baby.
We see the main character enter her advisor’s home and then leave much later, clearly out of sorts. After driving home she sits in her bathtub and describes the assault to her best friend in a fair amount of detail. She also discusses it again, in much less detail, with an insensitive doctor the day after the assault, school administrators two days later, and at jury selection a few years in the future.
A dying mouse is put inside a paper bag and euthanized by being slammed by a book. There is some blood but it’s not over the top or done for spectacle.
Agnes (Eva Victor) struggles to breathe as she has a severe anxiety attack while driving. She pulls over and is comforted by a Good Samaritan named Pete (John Carroll Lynch), who has experience with panic attacks. He calms her down through a breathing exercise, then gives her a sandwich and talks through her trauma with her while they eat.
Agnes (Eva Victor) has a severe anxiety attack while driving. She pulls over and is comforted by a Good Samaritan named Pete (John Carroll Lynch), who has experience with panic attacks. He calms her down through a breathing exercise, then gives her a sandwich and talks through her trauma with her while they eat.
The main character’s best friend has a successful pregnancy in this movie. At the beginning they make it clear that she had been trying for a while but it’s not clear whether she simply was unsuccessful in getting pregnant or had miscarried in the past.
I don't think Agnes and her adviser were that much older and younger he wasn't a tenured professor. Unless you're speaking of the book Lolita, which is discussed a lot