Review of Two Days in Paris

I found the depiction of this relationship appalling. I may show it to my teenage sons so they recognize what emotional abuse looks and sounds like. Nothing about the female lead character is endearing. She excludes her partner, makes him look and feel ridiculous, lies to him and is frankly very mentally ill. Her issues were not little insecurities that he should learn to live with and love. They were catastrophic and destructive. I watched it to the end to see if she might redeem herself, and she sort of did, gaining some insight into her own behaviour. However, if she truly loved this man, she should have undergone a couple years of intensive therapy before even thinking of beginning a relationship. Movies like this trivialize the seriousness of this type of behaviour. I did not like the happy ending; that kind of irrational behaviour does not just go away and leave the one who bears the brunt of it to live happily ever after.