Domestic abuse

Enough : Is Violence in Film Realistic

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Enough was a movie made in 2002 featuring Jennifer Lopez as the female lead character . The plot of the story centers about Slim Hiller , played by Jennifer Lopez , who is a young mother and is married to an abusive husband . After years of abuse , she escapes but continues to hide her identity as well as her child 's . Time and time again her husband finds them , and Slim must again suffer violence at the hands of

her husband Eventually , Slim realizes that she will never escaper her husband and must come up with a different approach if she is ever to live freely again . She learns to defend herself and sets a trap for her husband When he abuses her the next time , it will be the last time , because she kills him in self defense . This is a great action packed movie but not very realistic in terms of depicting domestic violence against women

Domestic violence is messy , physically and emotionally , and never comes as neatly packaged as in the movie . Domestic violence victims are women who have struggled with an abusive husband for a long time . She has children , and no means to support herself . She is physical and emotionally dependent on the man that beats her . A domestically abused woman rarely leaves her husband , and she spends the bulk of her life juggling between tolerating the physical abuse and trying to appease her husband . Women who are battered in real life do not want or get revenge . Abused women do not want to kill their husbands they just want to be left alone . Also , in real life domestic violence is much more subtle and often ends in death of the woman not the man . Depicting domestic violence in film does two contrasting things . The depiction can bring to light society 's epidemic of domestic violence . However because it is a movie , and fiction it can easily be dismissed - as just a movie ! I feel that domestic violence was not portrayed realistically in Enough . The movie was meant to be an action packed story where the good girl wins , unfortunately that never happens in real life

Works Cited Enough . Dir . Michael Apted . Perfs . Jennifer Lopez , Bill Cambell . Film Columbia Pictures , 2002...