We’ve all seen it happen; Boy meets girl, their eyes meet, and eventually its love at first sight. But what if something goes awry? What happens when this feeling of “love” is not mutual and instead of ‘love at first sight’ it becomes a matter of LUST at first sight? Infatuation is not all its cracked up to be. It can become an agonizing and disgusting process. Some people take this aspect of lust way too far; we see this example in popular movies.
The other night, I was watching Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, and Selma Blair. For those of you who have not yet seen this film, it was popular in the late 90s (1999) and depicts a love/ lust triangle between the main characters Kathryn (played by Gellar), Sebastian (Ryan) and their “conquests” Annette (Witherspoon) and Selma. Gellar and Phillippe make a perverted bet at the beginning of the movie, stating that if Sebastian has sex with Annette ( who is the headmaster’s daughter) before the school year starts, then he gets to have intercourse with his step sister Kathryn. If he fails, Kathryn gains possession of Sebastian’s beautiful car. Ultimately, Sebastian falls in love with his “conquest” Annette, Kathryn being the bitch that she is ends up turning on him and he gets killed. Karma falls on Kathryn in the worst way by the entire school learning all of her horrible tactics at Sebastian’s funeral; including the fact that she is a HUGE crack snorting hypocrite.
Another example of crazed femme fatal roles comes from the all famous film entitled Fatal Attraction. In this movie (Starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglass), Glenn’s character meets Michael’s at a corporate dinner event. Everything seemed good and fine in the beginning, but then things got a bit more serious- with the two meeting for “lunches” and going out for coffee. Next thing you know, Michael is meeting Glenn in her apartment for dinner and they end up sleeping together, causing him to be cheating on his wife. Michael knows what he’s doing is wrong, and tries confronting Glenn about their actions and tells her that they must STOP, but she has this horrible hold on him- Glenn’s character wants what she cannot have and is an insane and psychotic individual who will attempt any action it takes to try to be with Michael (including following him home, kidnapping his child, and claiming to be pregnant with his child). Sorry to be a killjoy, but I shall come to the conclusion that whomever is reading this entry has seen this movie- the ending of this thriller depicts Glenn eventually trying to kill everyone off (Michael and is his wife), but ironically, Glenn is the one who dies (gets stabbed/ drowns in the bathtub).
The final film that I wish to describe is one of my personal favorites called Swimfan. This one is basically an updated 2000’s version of Fatal Attraction, with pretty much the same plot- only it is set in a high school setting. The main character is a taken member if the swim team of the high school the actors attend. He has a very happy and functional relationship with his girlfriend until a Southern Belle comes and takes everything away from him (his job, his chance at a swimming scholarship for college, the tight relationship he has with his mother, etc). After multiple turns of events, the Southern Belle goes postal and ultimately gets killed off- causing everyone else to live happily ever after (again similar to Fatal Attraction’s plot).
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