Has anyone else seen the creepy first episode of Amazon Prime’s new series- Modern Love?
The aim of the series is to dramatise various different stories of love. The first tells the story of a very young woman who lives in an expensive flat (provided by her family), is incredibly goofy (big eyes, big teeth, giggly) and is in thrall to her building’s much older, militaristic doorman.
She’s frightened to come home with a man in case the doorman sees. He judges her boyfriends. She has to sneak past him to get in & out. He’s a former sniper, whose viewpoint is shown on screen as having cross hairs over her boyfriend. When she gets pregnant, he tells her off for taking risks by living a normal life.
Basically, he’s dominating and oppressing a silly and naive young woman who has no friends or family to turn to, and who can’t avoid him.
And his relationship with her is ..... the love of the title. The whole episode is about the fact that ‘love’ consists of this alarming and inappropriate behaviour.
How sad that Amazon should think so little of women, and our need for autonomy, that they consider this behaviour to be love.
I don’t know what happens in subsequent episodes. I was too enraged to watch on.
Oh, and after having her baby, she deflates immediately! Like a popped balloon! As we all do. Female biology obviously not the writer’s strong point.