We love watching dysfunctional couples. This is not even just in film. We love watching drama in our celebrities, politicians, and even sometimes our friends and family. As long as we can keep a distance from it, dysfunction often attracts our attention.
So, of course, films produce memorable dysfunctional couples. Sometimes the dysfunction between two characters is the center of the plot while other times it is an extra complexity. Here are ten dysfunctional movie couples, from least dysfunction to most. Also, spoiler warning.
8 Carrie And Big From Sex And The City: The Movie
Sex and the City was a TV show but concluded itself with movies. A lot of fans had mixed feelings about Carrie ending up with Big, even the director, Darren Star, himself admitted that Big and Carrie getting married was not his intention. Knowing that, suddenly a lot makes sense.
Big and Carrie had a lot of relationship issues. Big was rarely emotionally available to deal with these issues and often made Carrie feel hurt, unwanted, and confused. Their relationship shot down a show that was originally about Carrie's independence and how romance doesn't just make problems go away.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a wonderfully creative film. At the center of it is a dysfunctional relationship that got so bad that one of them decided to erase her memories of the other. Yes, that is a business in this movie! Joel, finding this out, decides to get his memories erased too.
As the audience, you can find yourself wanting these two characters to be together. They are opposites, so seeing them happy with each other is cute. However, that obviously didn't last. The movie ends with them re-meeting and deciding to date again. However, we will never know if they will work out.
7 Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler From Gone With The Wind
Based on the famous book of the same name, Scarlett and Rhett's relationship was solely grounded on negativity. Both of them had the common traits of being opportunistic, selfish, and arrogant. The worst part was that Rhett married Scarlett despite knowing that she loved another man. He simply hoped that she would get over him. Neither of them were good to each other, with Rhett forcing himself on her, cheating on her, and verbally abusing her. Scarlett was both verbally and emotionally abusive as well.
While Rhett’s “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” speech to Scarlett is seen often as a symbol of empowerment of an exhausted man breaking away from a abusive woman, it does ignore the fact that both of them were pretty bad to each other.
6 Anna And Hans From Frozen
Disney is usually all about happy couples. In Frozen though, they decided to go a little dark. Hans seemed like any other prince at first, but it turned out that he was actually a power-hungry monster in the end.
Even before he showed his real intentions, he and Anna were already pretty dysfunctional. They just met and wanted to get married. Obviously, Hans had his reasons. Poor Anna though was a victim of this plan.
5 Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades Of Grey
Is this kicking a dead horse? Maybe, but we will continue kicking it none-the-less.
What frames itself as a desirable relationship in media is sometimes actually the most dysfunctional. Firstly, its gets BDSM dangerously wrong. Safety, consent, and communication are of major importance in the BDSM community, but Christian Grey's version is more about emotional bargaining. Anastasia agrees to most of what he does to her just because she is scared of losing him.
Anakin Skywalker And Padme Amidala From Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
There are a lot of fans that argue that Anakin never really loved Padme. Some say he decided to love her for his own political ends. It fits the character, as he turned to the dark side due to his hunger for power. To him, Padme is more of an accessory to his ambition.
Also, Anakin also straight-up tried to murder Padme on planet Mustafar.
4 Christine Daae And Erik From Phantom Of The Opera
Honestly, this relationship does not have a single functioning brain cell. It is fun to watch, but wow it is it a problem. Firstly, Erik is a complete stalker. Christine mistakes this creepy man for an angel and he goes along with it, so that's a total problem. Erik definitely did not love Christine either but loved what she represented. He did not really know her.
Also, Erik is the incredibly jealous type. He is literally like, "Come with me or I'll kill your boyfriend" at one point.
3 Rosemary And Guy From Rosemary's Baby
Letting Satan sleep with your wife without her consent is pretty bad.
We actually don't see that much of Guy in Rosemary's Baby, but he definitely proved to all that he is the worst husband. Guy was the king of gas-lighting, making Rosemary out to be a paranoid and hysterical woman when in reality, he sold her body to a cult so that he can become a famous actor.
2 David And The Heartless Woman From The Lobster
Let's face it, everyone in this film is in a dysfunctional couple. However, none were quite as horrifying to watch though as David's relationship with the heartless woman.
We don't really know her backstory or much about her except for the fact that she is cruel. David tries to get with her to save his skin in this dystopian world they live in, but he tests him in the most brutal of ways. She goes as far as to kill his brother as a test of his love. He doesn't pass, and she breaks up with him.
1 Alex And Dan From Fatal Attraction
This psychological thriller sums up everyone's nightmare about relationships gone bad. Dan has a fling with a woman named Alex, and then she turns out to be a nightmare.
She wants his attention and will do anything to get it/keep it from attempting suicide to stalking to attacking his family.
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