keep the streets empty for me

haven't known patricia widow's bay for very long but i fear we have another character of all time on our hands

saw send help and am obsessed with the core of the film aka the scene where linda talks about her husband and bradley talks about his mom. because then you think about it and each one is just a stand in for the other’s past abusive relationship. bradley can’t accept linda’s power over him but when he realizes he needs it he puts on a charming compliant facade that you can imagine was what he needed to survive his childhood all while growing more and more hateful. linda keeps bradley there and makes him dependent on her even when he manipulates and insults and poisons her because she can’t stand being alone and suddenly you can imagine the cycle that kept her and her husband married for 10 years. bradley sees her as his mom and is never attracted to her and shakes his head at the food she feeds him like a child. linda sees him as her husband and pictures the life they could have together as a couple. both were operating on hardware from decades past and were never going to change. no one talk to me.