why would a person go back to a person and who kick them in the teeth and not once and not twice and but over and over again . this film teach u that in order to find love we must accept abuse ( not just forgive it and but fully accept it ) . gosh . no wonder my first relationship only last ten year . i obviously wasn not embrace my inner masochist . a bucatinsky write debut and there be many wonderful aspect to this film while however and in order to justify the reunion of eli and tom and more character development would have be helpful . we be never acquaint with eli masochism and in fact and we be lead to believe that he be not a masochist and although tom psycho emotional sadism be highly evident .