6/12/2023 0 Comments I may destroy you endingHis confederate is dancing for Terry, as opposed to the other way around.Īrabella comes on to David, who does not drug her. He, unlike her, stammers while ordering his drink. It reverses almost everything, particularly gender. The last scenario is the most exceptional and most whimsical. He pleads to stay with her, even as the police comes and takes him away. She says almost nothing, making it clear he’s the one with the problem. He’s puzzled by her interest in him, by her openness, by her lack of fear. Why is she letting him sit on her bed? Why is she letting him speak to her? It’s not right, he says. He’s getting more and more attached to Arabella, who isn’t frightened of him. Image Source: The Rolling Stones MagazineĪrabella drives David home, where he explains that he’s served jail time for rape before darkly but playfully listing the various kinds of rapes he’s committed. There’s something relatively theatrical about this monologue, but that’s the point. You’re worthless.” Then he breaks down sobbing. He addressed himself: “Don’t you tell anyone, David, and if you tell anyone, I will kill you. He gets more and more vulnerable, abusing her, but with commands, he seems to have heard before. He grabs her face, calls her a whore, and says, “Wars are going on in Iraq, and you’re making a big old drama ’cause some bloke slipped a pill in your drink and wants to fuck your brains out in a nightclub?”. This time, when David takes her down to the bathroom to rape her and opens her eyes, alert, she delivers a monologue. The girl who was raped, in that fuzzy red jacket, with the purple hair dances behind her. She energetically dances in front of David, as another version of herself. Terry makes Arabella snort a tremendous amount of coke. In the next possibility, it’s Terry who has the idea and Arabella who is unsure. He’s dead, but that doesn’t mean he will be forgotten. She brings him home, on the bus, a woman says to her, “boys will be boys.” Arabella shoves him under her bed, along with everything else she’s repressing. They chase him through all around the city, and after he faints, Arabella holds his penis and beats him up. Her giddiness disappears when she remembers that the rapist has taken her underwear. As he begins to undo his pants, she opens her eyes and asks, “Who is the criminal, you or me?” just as Theo reaches out from the next bathroom stall and jabs with the drugs he carries. David takes a spiked Arabella down to the bathroom. Arabella approaches him, hilariously pretending to sip her drink while Terry tricks his co-conspirator with a dance, and Theo steals his drugs. They call Theo, and the three of them watch the rapist, David, at the bar. In the first scenario, upon recognizing her rapist, Arabella drags an uncertain Terry down to the bathroom of the Ego Death Bar and explains her plan: hook, line, sink him. It’s the first of three scenarios that play through Arabella’s mind as she sits in her cement backyard in the peaceful companionship of her generous roommate Ben.Īrabella urges a bloody vengeance sequence, a tear-jerking drama, and lastly, a romantic role reversal that traverses clichés in which no questions, no thoughts, no feelings are off-limits. In this episode, Arabella faces her attacker in what first appears to be the truth but is instead her imagination. At the end of the previous episode, she remembered the details of her sexual assault. The finale explores several possibilities of how Arabella ultimately gets her revenge. Have a look at the official trailer below. Even though Arabella can never undo her sexual assault, she can now use it to narrate her own story. I May Destroy You is a work that tells the story of its own making. We don’t have to listen to her speak to know the narrative: We just watched it. Before the words come out, the camera cuts to Arabella, in a purplish wig in Italy, much like in the series’ opening sequences. “Thanks for coming, by the way,” she says, nervously, to the all people squeezed into a small bookstore. In the final few minutes of I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel‘s Arabella Essiedu begins to read from her new book, January 22nd.
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