Lifetime's new movie has a perverse, overly simplified view of domestic violence.
In a few scenes, Petito fights back: While on a break from the road, Laundrie overhears a phone call between Petito and her mother, where she talks about the intense highs and lows of their relationships . In the next scene, when Laundrie confronts Petito about the call, she directly addresses the incident where Laundrie hit her in Utah, and even explicitly calls their relationship “toxic.
By making a perfect victim out of Petito and a perfect villain out of Laundrie—especially in ways that are based in little to no fact—creates a sterilized version of Gabby’s struggles in a lame attempt to avenge her. Had Petito not defended herself time and time again, she still wouldn’t have deserved to be murdered. Had Laundrie been less abusive and more well-liked by Petito’s friends and family, he still could have believably been a perpetrator of IPV.
taking away any agency over her story she may have posthumously retained and swapping it for their own fanfiction.Halfway through the movie, after the couple is given a 24-hour no contact order after a physical altercation in Utah, Petito’s friend Rose almost manages to convince her to drive back to Florida without Laundrie. But as Petito lurches the van forward, her phone map pointed towards home, she chooses instead to head to the hotel where Laundrie is staying.
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