I usually don't bother with Tom Cruise films. They inevitably make me feel all stabby and that's without getting into the historical fallacious twaddle which is Valkyrie but Knight and Day was on TV and we watched it because we were bored. I wasn't expecting anything exciting since it is an action movie and they are hardly examples of gender equality but Knight and Day took it to a whole new level. He's a hitman. She's a dippy girl who is also a mechanic. She wanders on to a plane full of people trying to kill him. He responds by saving her life and then drugging her in order to kidnap her. Because a hero can't save a woman without drugging her first.
He repeatedly drugs her in order to kidnap her. Once, he even removes all her clothes and puts her in a bikini whilst she's drugged. But, that wasn't creepy because he's a professional and they were on a Caribbean island. It was romantic.
Did I mention the bit about him kidnapping her? Repeatedly?
Then drugging her?
Plus, there was this bit where he returns her home, having kidnapped her, and he covers her body and her flat with post-it notes with instructions. Just in case she was too stupid to eat breakfast.
Obviously, the movie ends up with them driving off into the sun together. Generally speaking, relationships involving violent men who repeatedly drug a woman and kidnap her are considered abusive. What with the whole multiple felonies involved but somehow we are supposed to believe it was romantic.
Personally, I don't find Stockholm syndrome romantic. Could just be me though.
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