In a series of escalating events, what was once a romantic engagement transforms into a chaotic bloodbath.
Shes the one picking up late night work calls during sex.
Emily actuallyapologizesto Luke for getting the promotion at all.
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These initial microaggressions become heightened as they become crueler and more callous throughout the movie.
You look like the hooker they paid to keep them company.
Instead of finding a productive way up the corporate ladder, he blamesherfor his lack of success.
He habitually minimizes her hard work and pretends she only got her position due to her looks.
His atrocious sense of entitlement and heinous accusations at Emily are a projection of his own shortcomings.
Emilys blood might also simultaneously and paradoxically represent the traditional feminine role of passive suffering.
Because she is also the victim of chronic abuse, many viewers may find this scene cathartic.
when it comes to both aggression and success.
