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If There Be Thorns — 2015 🌿
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If There Be Thorns — 2015 🌿
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Bart Winslow Sheffield Jr. Moodboard
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Chris, Bart, and Jory: the Saddest Theme in the Flowers of the Attic Film Series
I swear to you, all morality leaves my body when it comes to the Dollanganger siblings. (We're speaking the VC Andrews screen adaptions, as the books are wayyyy too messy for me to make excuses for the utter sexual exploitation of Cathy and her rejection of consent) Cathy and Chris had to fight through hell with tooth and nail, and where I absolutely am disgusted by the incestuous content presented in these films, its purely because they have been clouded in so much darkness that I just want them to be happy.
Which makes the judgment (not that those who judge don't deserve to judge, it is fucking gross under any other circumstance), so much harsher, because the characters that judge them through the duration of the series didn't experience the endless trauma Chris and Cathy did. They bonded through the things only they fought through together, and Chris was more than what he was to Cathy, which was why it was seamless for him to father Cathy's children. Though it hurt him to see her love other men and bed other men, Chris was there from the second both Jory and Bart were born, raising them, providing for them, and most of all, loving them. It is something in the film series that Chris doesn't get enough recognition, because Chris sure as hell didn't have to do this much for Cathy, but because he loved her, he loved Jory and Bart, too.
Which leads to my most hated part of the film series. How Bart completely throws all of Chris' love in his face, and I know it's a driving plot point, but it's so unfair to Chris with all he's fought through to also be betrayed by one of his sons. It's bonkers to me. Chris will never not deserve better. He deserved to live happily with Cathy, and embrace his sons lovingly, and create more of a home that was warm and comfortable. Chris Dollanganger bore a majority of the hurt for his siblings, and still was walked all over for providing, loving and protecting his family. This is the man that gives in to Jory's grandmother's blackmail so he wouldn't lose him, and would rather die than refer to Bart as his "stepson."
Christopher Dollanganger in the films >>>>
Bart w/ his horsepuppy
VC Andrews' If There Be Thorns — 2015
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VC Andrews' If There Be Thorns (2015)
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Cindy Sheffield is such an interesting character to me because of how much time she spends off the page, and there's always an excuse for it too. Cindy's off visiting a friend. Cindy's away at boarding school. Cindy's at summer camp. When Cindy's around though Cindy isn't really allowed to go anywhere or do anything. Most of the family is caught up in their own problems or in the case of Bart deliberately ignoring her. Cathy claims to like having her around, but she's also the person who sent her away in the first place. The only time that Cindy actually has anyone's full attention is when somebody's mad at her, and when that happens it usually ends with Cindy either begging not to be abandoned or preemptively accepting that she isn't part of the family anymore.
Then it hits me like a ton of bricks that the distance between Cindy and the rest of the family is not just geographical because it never has been. From the very first page Cindy has had one foot in the family and every time something happens that makes her feel unloved or unwanted she retreats further into herself and away from the family. After all she's been hearing for nearly her entire life that she isn't really one of them ,and to young Cindy being sent away by Cathy and Chris would have solidified and confirmed that to her. Cathy talks about the boarding school like it was completely Cindy's choice to attend, but to an insecure little girl who doesn't share a drop of blood with anyone in family I don't think Cindy thought of it as a choice at all. When her adoptive parents suggested boarding school that just confirmed that everyone wanted her gone, and she probably thought if she didn't agree that they would stop being her parents completely. Cindy does love her family. She just doesn't know that her family loves her.
Embarrassing…
