Originally posted by: sammy17
I can see what you are saying. But i don't think maya's character was ever created with the intention of breaking the norm of the goody goody type female lead. I feel like her character was created to present a social issue. Her character to me seems like a message. Her character has portrayed the destructive results that an unstable childhood can have on a person in the long-run, an issue that has been brought up many times and studied within human psychology. It is through her character that the repercussions of childhood experiences on the human/ adult psyche has been portrayed. The downwards spiral that maya is taking herself down is due to her own choices she made influenced by her childhood experiences. Unfortunately everything she went through as a child has shaped the person she has become now. She's a character that you are meant to feel sympathy for, but at the same time understand her actions are not justifiable, as ultimately it comes down to choice. Her character is very much of contemporary relevance, but unfortunately people aren't able to see this, as all they see is either a girl who your meant to feel sorry for and so her actions should be justified and forgiven because of what she has gone through, or a girl you are meant to be repulsed by.
In actual, we are meant to feel sorry for her, understand that everything she is doing is a result of everything she has gone through, but also understand that her wrongdoings as an adult cannot be justified and forgiven because her poor childhood experiences made her that way, because she ultimately chose to act that way on her own accord.