The Prince of Tides

[marie]

I never understood why my husband hated this movie and didn't want to watch it until I learned he had been sexually abused. It helped me understand a little what he's been going through.

 

[BlueOne]

The thing that really bothered me about this movie is that Streisand is supposedly playing this amazing psychiatrist who's helping this man overcome the trauma of sexual abuse, and then she ends up sleeping with him. To me, that's abuse, too. I mean, there's a reason it's illegal for doctors to sleep with their patients.

 

[SoCalJohn]

I thought i was the only one who noticed that, i mean he was seeing her to help his sister supposedly, but they got into all sorts of his stuff and i also thought there getting together was out of line.

 

[BlueOne]

I think one of the reasons so many people loved the Streisand and Nolte characters getting together in this movie, is the commonly held belief that any time a man has sex he wants it and he's lucky to get it. I mean, it's not like she *held him down* or anything, which a lot of people have to see in order to even start thinking something might be abusive. The fact that they worked through some very intense issues, with her in a professional therapy role, just didn't seem to bother most people. Unfortunately, we're not taught to recognize imbalances of power unless they're physical. He consented to it, therefore it's hunky-dory. Although, that does bring up the question of whether or not someone in such dire psychological straits as he was (even though outwardly he was holding up much better than his sister) could even give legal consent. But that's a whole other ball o'wax.

 

[michael Joseph]

This is a piece of fiction. This is what the public wants. Sex sells, but not too much just enough for an R rateing. As far a book, it added to the story. This stuff happens in real life too, the book was different from the movie. I read it, it was an ok book.