Movie Plots
Amother of two, married thirteen years and living in a Westchester colonial with a solarium and a two-car garage, watches the docile, shaggy German shepherd that her children named Mickey fall upon and deftly eviscerate an injured starling grounded in her back yard. She realizes that what she loves about the man she loves—his passion and confidence, the way he insists on her primacy and beauty and utility in his life, the satisfaction he takes in the way she ages gracefully and decorates his house, the feeling that he would fight ruthlessly to keep her well and next to him, his success in business, his ambition to be loved and worth loving, his authority over the children, his constant return to and ability with her body in sex, his manner of projecting health and strength—is all arbitrarily focused aggression. That she is complicit. That she is a feathered reward for the grudging obedience of a violent heart.
—Nick Admussen, Spring 2010