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You'd think that all this would just add interest--who needs more artificial sunniness from television, anyway?--but Felicity , alas, is no Ingmar Bergman movie, or even a Quentin Tarantino one, and the darkness just turns some delightful teen-age fare into an exercise in viewer masochism.
Masochism comes from the name of the demented 19 th -century novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who described the relevant eponymous practices in his writings.
In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
To put up with any one of these things, let alone all of them, requires an almost monstrous lust for effacement--a taste for masochism . These women are character studies in the most terrifying sort of selflessness, the kind that results from the failure to develop a self.
One may call it masochism, or self-denigration, or self-hatred, but it's a good thing all the same that she dares, at last, to look herself in the face.