Crazy Love (2007)

Crazy Love (2007). Crazy Love: Directed by Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens. With Bob Janoff, Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach, Sylvia Hoffman. The bizarre true story of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach.

“The victim, Linda, who ends up married to the guy did not say in this documentary that she loved the man who paid someone to disfigure her and then years later married her. He disfigured her face, her beautiful eyes and ruined her life as much as possible without actually killing her. To me it is obvious he is a narcissist because he never really admits any GUILT over ANY of his BAD VERY BAD actions. Dating her when he was married, obviously heu0026#39;s about 8-9 years older than her. She never had sex with him, and it was u0026#39;hintedu0026#39; but not stated outright that finally in her mid-30s after sheu0026#39;d been disfigured she was planning to lose her virginity, finally! to another guy, but when that guy saw her eyes not hidden behind dark glasses, he freaked. The one man she thought loved her (not Burt) broke off their engagement after she got out of the hospital after the acid attack. This woman was STRONG WILLED. To be blind to the point where she could only see light/dark and u0026#39;shapesu0026#39; and yet walk to work, in a big city, without a seeing eye dog or even a white cane, shows her strength. But by the time Burt got out of jail, Linda had been single, and living alone, for years. She had no one, no money, barely surviving in a one-room u0026#39;apartmentu0026#39;. AND thereu0026#39;s Burt, still relentlessly telling her he loves her, and asking for her forgiveness. So she has a love/hate relationship with him, whatu0026#39;s new about that? She tells him u0026#39;if you love me send me moneyu0026#39;… and although he was still in jail at the time, he was selling his lawyering services to the inmates and two weeks later sheu0026#39;s got a certified check from him for $4,000.00… in early 1970-71. That was BIG money for that time. Enough time has passed that she has u0026#39;gotten overu0026#39; what he did to her, as much as one could, and she no longer hates him. Hate is a strong emotion, and very draining, just like infatuation. (I think infatuation, not love, is the flip side of hate.) So heu0026#39;s out of jail, paid his u0026#39;debt to societyu0026#39; (as he said) and she wants some respite from her life of not-much. So she marries him. Odd, maybe, but not u0026#39;weirdu0026#39;. She doesnu0026#39;t love him, and he, purportedly, does love her (in his narcissistic way). I understand why she married him. Although he never stopped being a liar/cheat (heu0026#39;s a narcissist), he does seem to take care of her, and finally, thatu0026#39;s better than living alone, struggling to survive financially with an overweu0026#39;ening sense of loneliness. Maybe his punishment is having to take care of the woman he supposedly loved and yet injured so seriously. Who knows. Life is short and difficult. So she took comfort from her enemy. Move along, people, nothing (new) to see here. Very well done documentary! I was surprised it kept my interest, but it did.”