I'm glad I watched this for the first time at 25 y.o. with 3 years of therapy behind me rather than at 18 y.o., the same age as Ricci in this film, because it would've further festered within me the narrative that, by loving an erratic, homophobic, mentally-ill, and violent man hard enough, I would cure him of his insecurities and he'd be a good partner to me purely because of my passiveness and childlike demeanor. Don't watch this if…
