A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate is a 1996  comedy and romance film that was directed and co-written by Martin Lawrence, who also stars in the film. The stars that played in the film were of African-American actors such as Lynn Whitfield, Regina King, Bobby Brown and Della Reese. The film tells the story of Darnell Wright. Martin Lawrence was a ladies' man  in the movie who finds himself targeted by one of his obsessed lovers.

The first theory that represents the movie A Thin Line Between Love and Hate  is the Avoidant Attachment Theory. The reason it represents avoidant attachment was because the woman who played Robin which was  the obsessed woman with the character Darnell Wright did not want to get to close to Darnell and she was not comfortable with being close to him. Every time the characters Darnell and Robin would go out Robin would withdraw herself from Darnell. It was difficult for Robin to trust people because her first husband cheated on her with a white woman in her own house and she didn’t trust people that closely anymore especially man.

The second theory that I felt the character Robin possessed was in Lee’s Six Styles of Love- Mania after the two characters Robin and Darnell shared and intimate part with each other Robin begin to get obsessed with Darnell and jealous of every woman he talked to, and she actually tried to kill a particular woman he was involved with. Robin also had a high need for affection and attention. Robin would always ask Darnell did he love her after the engaged in an intimate activity and when he didn’t respond she would do crazy things to herself such as bruise herself up to make it seem like he had beaten her.