ging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent wI recently watched the movie ‘Derailed’ starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen. Charles (Clive Owen), plays a married man who meets Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston). Rapport develops and the seeds of an affair begin. In a hotel bedroom both are robbed and Lucinda raped by an intruder. The intruder subsequently bribes Charles to hand over substantial sums of money in exchange for keeping the affair from Charles’s wife. The audience are led to believe that the rapist is psychopathic and that Charles must do everything to protect his family. However, Charles is subject to a hoax in which Lucinda and her boyfriend Laroche collude to bribe ‘straying’ husbands into relinquishing large sums of money. In trying to retrieve his money and avoid his wife learning of the affair, both Lucinda and Laroche are killed, Charles loses his job after charges of embezzlement and murders an accomplice.

This thriller raises questions about morality, infidelity deceit and the cost of engaging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent wi

bed and Lucinda raped by an intruder. The intruder subsequently bribes Charles to hand over substantial sums of money in exchange for keeping the affair from Charles’s wife. The audience are led to believe that the rapist is psychopathic and that Charles must do everything to protect his family. However, Charles is subject to a hoax in which Lucinda and her boyfriend Laroche collude to bribe ‘straying’ husbands into relinquishing large sums of money. In trying to retrieve his money and avoid his wife learning of the affair, both Lucinda and Laroche are killed, Charles loses his job after charges of embezzlement and murders an accomplice.

This thriller raises questions about morality, infidelity deceit and the cost of engaging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent w

Charles must do everything to protect his family. However, Charles is subject to a hoax in which Lucinda and her boyfriend Laroche collude to bribe ‘straying’ husbands into relinquishing large sums of money. In trying to retrieve his money and avoid his wife learning of the affair, both Lucinda and Laroche are killed, Charles loses his job after charges of embezzlement and murders an accomplice.

This thriller raises questions about morality, infidelity deceit and the cost of engaging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent w

avoid his wife learning of the affair, both Lucinda and Laroche are killed, Charles loses his job after charges of embezzlement and murders an accomplice.

This thriller raises questions about morality, infidelity deceit and the cost of engaging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent w

ging in the forbidden. The audience is reminded of Fatal Attraction and the potential costs of infidelity. However, the movie also raises the issue regarding the lengths people will go to avoid ‘showing up’ in ways other than those consistent with unquestioned assumptions as to how they should be.

The unquestioned assumptions operating here are the Group and Morality Myths. Myths are socially and culturally determined beliefs which we ‘buy into’, requiring us to exhibit behaviour deemed appropriate to the belief. Myths underpin all social roles, e.g. relationships, marriage, family and work, and act as powerful determinants of our behaviour. In the movie, Charles appears to hold beliefs about how he should behave as a husband. Presumably fidelity is part of this but also is the belief that he cannot tell his wife of his desire to relate to another woman is ways deemed inappropriate to someone who is not his wife. Thus he has to ‘hide’ aspects of himself from his wife and cannot ‘show up’ in ways which, if he did, might negate the need for the affair in the first place.

This means considering the concept of taboo in a radically different way – from an existential perspective of how we see the ‘Self