Originally posted by: WanderingWonder
Thanks for this - expressed my feelings about how rape is violent. If one imagines it, she would have been yelling screaming and begging him to stop and saying no. Especially because they were already in a heated argument.
Rape by definition is violence. That in no way shape or form changes because of one’s marriage status. It means, at no point in the continuum of affairs did the victim consent, not even in the very last second. I don’t believe this is how it went down - she was raped and yet she was immediately feeling guilty about her role in the rape?! No - maybe another submissive girl, but not Meerab. Meerab would have spit on him and if not angry because of the shock, she would have looked disgusted and sickened type of an anger.
I really still believe she felt guilty that they got into more heated arguments and in that heated environment, she initiated it. After creating the contract and holding it above his head, she felt ashamed for being the one to metaphorically rip it up. It hurt her pride, her ego, and since that was what she was running on at that point…she didn’t know how to deal with that being torn. And she was shown to be stubborn throughout… so if she said that she would leave him if the contract was broken, she would definitely leave. I saw that from the beginning episodes. That would make her pining away for him make sense.
Why do I think she initiated? Well first off, he said that in his inner monologue during the mirror scene. Even if he didn’t say that, the show had been building up to this exact situation. They had been showing Meerab finding him very attractive in recent episodes, and her jealousy building through her explosive angry reactions after the night out scenes etc. And what really hinted at it for me - the scene where she started roughly rummaging theough his pockets to find the note that the kid gave him. That was very unlike Meerab; she had never been so physically forward with him, invading his space like that. But that had been building too - grabbing his collar, grabbing his shawl. I remember thinking wow, she’s so close to him…the halal version of being up in his face. I feel that was a lead up to showing her physical forwardness growing and eventually bubbling over in the heated passion.
I think that’s why Nooran thought that we’d find it amusing… because the girl who spent all 40 + episodes hating this guy or at least carrying proudly the contract on her head…suddenly just broke it herself because she couldn’t resist this guy. Unfortunately for Nooran, the editors and director royally f’ed up that scene sequence and thought it would be thrilling to dangle the MR angle for interest. I think they didn’t expect the backlash at all… so they added the dumb voiceovers to try and make it clear that she wasn’t raped.
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