Angelina Jolie II

[eveschmeve]

For some reason the thing that struck me as the meanest thing he did was pour beer on Angelina as she slept. He took advantage of her being in a vulnerable position and it feels so petty and mean-spirited.

[Binky]

When Brad’s alcoholism was made known l thought of the 60’s themed photo shoot he and AJ did right about the start of their relationship/end of his marriage. It depicts a bunch of kids, alcohol, and domestic violence. It’s a beautiful shoot, but it has aged…poorly.

[hildymatildy]

Jennifer was quoted as saying Brad lacks a sensitivity chip. It's pretty obvious that he's rather callus and selfish.

Back when Jen and Brad were first divorced, people accused Angelina of running a smear campaign against Jenn, but I think it was Brad because you see him doing the same thing now.

He keeps his hands clean clearly but there are stories all the time about how Shilo hates her mom and wants to live with her dad all from unnamed "reliable" sources which were probably straight from Brad or someone tasked with spreading such stories.

Other than the news that Maddox wants nothing to do with him we don't hear anything about Pax and Zara where Brad is concerned. Way to protect your children, Brad.

I think Brad is a jerk. I have and will always think that.

I think his relationship with Jen was over when he cheated on her, but HE is the one who cheated and I never understood why people where angry with Angelina and absolved him of any and all responsibility.

There are even people today who will defend his violent behavior on that flight, "Angelia pushed him to it", "Angelina wanted too many kids." Even with the kids, Brad gets absolved of his infantile, abusive, behavior as if he is just too stupid or innocent to know better. Tsk

Edit: If my ex was abusing drugs and alcohol which made him mean and violent, and if he was insensitive, I wouldn't want to have shared custody. I would fight tooth and nail to keep him from further hurting our children, and I admire Angelina for doing the same.

I also find it weird how obsessive media tends to be about Shilo. They always have been, but it's not like there aren't five othet children to swoon over. Maybe Shilo is Brad's golden child.

[cremetangerine82]

CW: staged and implied domestic violence

I found the photo-shoot that Brad and Angelina did, and photos 23 to 26 are possibly triggering. Where they connected to By the Sea?

[Auroranorth]

I never saw the whole thing before. Yikes. Those shots are something else.

[Gigiree]

Aug 18, 2022 10:07:14 GMT -4 Ginger said:

Dec 30, 2015 21:40:13 GMT -4 cubanitafresca said:

Maybe it shouldn't mean that he doesn't get to have a relationship with his kids. But he may not get that choice because it's also possible that the kids themselves don't want to see them.

I can understand the older kids being that way, especially Maddox. I don't believe that the younger kids, who were only 8 at the time of the plane incident, would be hanging on to it permanently unless they were being strongly encouraged to do so. Little kids don't do that.

As a person who grew up with an violent, alcoholic father who abused my mother in front of me and my siblings, I disagree. Little kids can and do remember these incidences, and the trauma remains into adulthood.

[Ginger]

Jul 23, 2010 10:27:31 GMT -4 Gigiree said:

As a person who grew up with an violent, alcoholic father who abused my mother in front of me and my siblings, I disagree. Little kids can and do remember these incidences, and the trauma remains into adulthood.

Let me clarify. I meant that I don't think a little kid is going to make the decision to cut a parent out of their lives. That's usually something people don't do until they are older. The older kids (Maddox and Pax) I can believe made that decision of their own volition (if indeed they did so). But I don't believe that two 8 year olds would do so without being guided that way.

I didn't mean to imply that a little kid won't be traumatized by abuse or would forget about it. But the little ones were at an age when their relationships with their parents are largely in the hands of the adults, and I have a very hard time believing that 8-year-olds decided Daddy is beyond forgiveness and that they don't wish to see him ever again. Especially if the abuse they experienced was limited to what happened on the airplane.

[laurenj]

Aug 24, 2022 21:24:36 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

CW: staged and implied domestic violence

I found the photo-shoot that Brad and Angelina did, and photos 23 to 26 are possibly triggering. Where they connected to By the Sea?

I sure hope they were connected to the movie, otherwise, I'm not sure why that theme would have been chosen (at that time).

I can't be sure though because I tried to sit through that piece of dreck one time and I don't think I even lasted 10 minutes. The monochromatic color scheme and deliberately flat acting, it was all too understated to the point where I literally couldn't pay attention enough to even figure out the story.

[scarlet]

The photoshoot was 10 years before the movie, so...

[cancan]

Aug 25, 2022 8:57:51 GMT -4 Gigiree said:

Aug 18, 2022 10:07:14 GMT -4 Ginger said:

I can understand the older kids being that way, especially Maddox. I don't believe that the younger kids, who were only 8 at the time of the plane incident, would be hanging on to it permanently unless they were being strongly encouraged to do so. Little kids don't do that.

As a person who grew up with an violent, alcoholic father who abused my mother in front of me and my siblings, I disagree. Little kids can and do remember these incidences, and the trauma remains into adulthood.

Indeed. My husband still carries a lot of pain over how his father abused his mother, and talks about watching her hide under a car to protect herself from his beating. They divorced when my husband was 5 and this happened before that. Kids do not forget and the repercussions can last a lifetime.