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I think the reason is because I am an actual mintority who is doing the same thing. It's exactly why I relate to the movie despite being a woman.

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I'm glad you relate to it because it is amazing but if there is one criticism I could level, it is that the only female character seems like she is ~drugged~ for most of the movie. Uma Thurman is a good actress so I have to assume it was the direction/script.

Edit. Sorry, I was getting hyperbolic. There just isn't much development of her character so it is hard to see what the relationship between her and Ethan Hawke's character is even based on.

She was written that way to show what effects their cultural expectations would have on somebody's emotional expressiveness.

It's not just her who acts that way. It's every valid portrayed in the movie.

> "it is hard to see what the relationship between her and Ethan Hawke's character is even based on."

As implied in the movie he sees in her a person who, despite being a valid, is limited by the fact that she has a disability. The same kind of disability he has. Only she buys in to it and allows cultural expectations to limit her. He wants to "fix her". To show her that she may not be so limited if she has the fortitude to push past her limitation.

Also they probably find each other physically attractive too.

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