Enough April 22, 2007
Posted by lana in Women Who Kick Ass, enough, girlfight, jennifer lopez, power.2 comments
A week or so ago I watched the movie Enough. I had seen this movie before, but had completely forgotten about it. It ties fairly well to movies such as Girlfight though.
In this film we see Jeniffer Lopez’s character go from working as a waitress in a diner to marrying a wealthy contractor who was one of her customers at the diner. Her marriage is seemingly perfect at first, unlike Diana’s situation at home. Her husband is attentive, kind, and madly in love with her. They have a beautiful home– and later a lovely daughter– and Slim (the character played by Lopez) couldn’t be happier. At least that is until she discovers that her husband is a philanderer.
Slim confronts him, under the impression that he is a rational man and will see the wrong in his actions and try to correct his ways. Instead, however, her husband hits her and basically says that he is a man and although he loves her, she is not enough simply because it goes against the male nature. Slim is then forced to deal with his abusive nature (and divorce is out of the question because he has an “I want it all” mentality), but, along with the help of her coworkers from the diner, she begins to make plans for her and her young daughter’s escape. She manages to leave one day (after being severely beaten by her husband), but her husband uses his friends in the police force and a tale of extreme obsession ensues and he basically stalks her every move across the country and away from him.
Slim realizes that the law won’t be able to do anything to help her and that he will never stop until he has her (along with his string of affairs), so she decides to take matters into her own hands. She starts an intense training circuit which teaches her how to fight and defeat her husband, despite his much more impressive size and strength. Unlike Diana’s fight scene (which is impromptu), Slim sneaks into her husbands house and basically disarms him by hiding his many guns (which were cleverly stashed about the home, further emphasizing his secretive, controlling, and violent nature), the kitchen knives, and even cuts the power and phone lines. Slim and her husband fight and she actually ends up killing him. During the fight scene you see all the flashbacks of her being beaten by her husband and her husband throwing their young daughter off them while beating his wife. It’s really reminiscent of Girlfight and seemed fitting with this weeks theme. This movie was produced 2 years after Girlfight; it’s interesting to see how much further the fight scene is taken and the entire beaten wife fighting back and winning against her husband isn’t something that I have seen in any other movies that I can recall.
