what i find absolutely breathtaking about Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen is the consistency with how they show that men will not listen to what the women they love are saying to them until, yknow, Something Bad Happens.
Alexandra tells Jay that she wants to LEAVE bc the guy selling custard is creepy and weird. Jay keeps telling her it's fine and okay (things were not fine and okay).
Rachel tells Nicky she doesn't want to get married, and he admits later that when he heard that he literally thought "yep, that's the girl im gonna marry." Rachel tells Nicky she doesn't want to have children/give birth, and he just pushes past her worries and reasons and tells her it's all going to be fine. And he just doesn't respect Rachel's wishes until it is literally too late.
Marriage IS a death sentence for women bc so many men will want everything except for the women they claim to love to be an autonomous, complex person, who actually have their own beliefs and desires.
